The high cost of good intentions a history of U.S. federal entitlement programs / John F. Cogan.
| Author/creator | Cogan, John F. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017] |
| Description | xii, 500 pages ; 24 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBooks on EBSCOhost |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Creating legislative precedents : Revolutionary War pensions -- An experiment with government trust funds : Navy pensions -- The first great entitlement : Civil War pensions -- Repeating past mistakes : World War I veterans benefits -- Retrenchment : Roosevelt and the veterans -- The birth of the modern entitlement state -- The consequences of social security surpluses -- A new kind of entitlement : the G.I. Bill -- Setting the post-war entitlement agenda : 1946/1950 -- 1951/1964 : establishing social insurance dominance -- The beginning of the great turn in welfare policy : 1951/1964 -- The first Great Society -- A legal right to welfare -- The second Great Society -- First inklings of fiscal limits : 1975/1980 -- A temporary slowdown : 1981/1989 -- Recognition and denial : 1989/2014 -- A challenge unlike any in U.S. history. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-477) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2017009793 |
| ISBN | 9781503603547 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |