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200 10$aWealth and welfare states$b[electronic resource] $eis America a laggard or leader? /$fIrwin Garfinkel, Lee Rainwater, and Timothy Smeeding
210   $aOxford ;$aNew York $cOxford University Press$d2010
215   $a1 online resource (265 p.)
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
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320   $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
327   $aContents; Figures and Tables; 1. Introduction; 2. Why All Rich Nations Have Large Welfare States; 3. The Size, Nature, and Universality of Welfare State Transfers; 4. How Welfare State Programs Redistribute Income, Reduce Poverty and Inequality, Build and Sustain Human Capital, and Promote Opportunity; 5. A Short American-centric History of Welfare State Programs and Outcomes; 6. Explaining American Exceptionalism: Laggard in Public Relief and Social Insurance-Leader in Education; 7. Explaining US Divergence in the Last Quarter of the Twentieth Century: The Long Swing Right
327   $a8. The Future of the American Welfare State References; Index
330   $aThis book explores the role of the welfare state in the overall wealth and well being of nations and in particular looks at the American welfare state in comparison with other developed nations in Europe and elsewhere.It is widely believed that the welfare state undermines productivity and economic growth, that the United States has an unusually small welfare state, and that it is, and always has been, a welfare state laggard. This book shows that all rich nations, including the United States, have large welfare states because the socialized programs that comprise the welfare state-public educa
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