Welfare & Benefit Systems

In Colored Property, David M. P. Freund shows how federal intervention spurred a dramatic shift in the language and logic of racial integration in ...

Medicare Advantage (MA) is an alternative way for Medicare beneficiaries to receive covered benefits. Under MA, private health plans are paid a per...

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly called the Food Stamp Program, is designed primarily to increase the food purchasing...

This book examines the antipoverty effects of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits over the past three recessions. The analysis especially focuses ...

One of the central features of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant is promoting work and job preparation for parents (mo...

In 2000, the first social agenda in the history of the European Union was launched, and the endeavor to combat poverty came increasingly to the for...

Social Environments and Human Behavior focuses on the influence and interaction of groups, communities, organizations, and social movements in the ...

This book provides two main contributions to the existing literature on the history of welfare institutions and social rights in the 20th century. ...

Congress, through the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), provides a variety of benefits and services to veterans and to certain members of t...

Deciding when to retire and claim Social Security benefits can be one of the most important financial decisions older Americans make. Despite highe...

One of the central features of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant is promoting work and job preparation for parents (mo...

The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, enacted in 1974, is a needs-based program that provides cash benefits designed to ensure a minimum ...

This innovative book provides a new perspective on Basic Income - a regular, unconditional payment to every citizen of the country. This comprehens...

For more than four decades, free market economists and right-wing politicians have touted Hong Kong as a model of capitalism and a market economy s...

Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) is a social insurance program that provides benefits to insured workers under the full retirement age w...

Social Care, Service Users and User Involvement provides a definitive introduction to practical, philosophical and theoretical issues at the heart ...

In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, the internal migration of a growing population transformed Britain into a 'society of strang...

What does the future hold for the welfare state in the post-industrial 21st century? Political and economic forces are threatening the taxation reg...

The discovery of oil in the late 1960s catapulted the people of Abu Dhabi out of the isolating poverty into which it had plunged in the 1930s and o...

Lying at the very edge of the eighteenth-century city, behind high walls and forbidding gates, the Dublin Foundling Hospital was long viewed with h...

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Britain's welfare state, one of the greatest achievements of our post-war reconstruction, was regarded as the cornerstone of modern society. Today,...