The Other Welfare: Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy

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By Edward D. Berkowitz ’72

Published Jan. 21, 2016

(Cornell University Press) The first complete history of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), The Other Welfare explores the controversies and inequities of SSI. Berkowitz and DeWitt use SSI to assess welfare and the development of the 20th-century American state. Berkowitz is a professor of history and public policy and public administration at George Washington University.

 

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