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US Social Welfare Policy: The Reagan Record and Legacy
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The authors reviewed the impact of three major pieces of retrenchment legislation: the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, the Social Security Amendments of 1983, and the Family Support Act of 1988.Abstract:
This paper reviews the Reagan administration's attack on the US welfare system during the 1980s. The paper considers the origins, provisions and impact of Reagan's three major pieces of retrenchment legislation: the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, the Social Security Amendments of 1983, and the Family Support Act of 1988. It is argued that Reagan's record in retrenching welfare was limited in budgetary terms, but was successful in making welfare programmes more restrictive. Reagan's welfare legacy is assessed in terms of his attempts at restructuring social provision and shifting the welfare debate to the right. The paper concludes by asserting that Reagan's critique of, and attack on, social provision was accepted by his presidential successors, George Bush and Bill Clinton.read more
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Creeping conditionality in the UK: From welfare rights to conditional entitlements?
TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that as policies based on conditional entitlement become central to the ongoing process of welfare reform, the very idea of "welfare rights" is systematically undermined.
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Neoliberalism With a Community Face? A Critical Analysis of Asset-Based Community Development in Scotland
Mary Anne MacLeod,Akwugo Emejulu +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the ideological and social policy roots of asset-based community development in the United States and the United Kingdom, and explore how this approach has been legitimized in Scotland.
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Medical sociology and health services research: past accomplishments and future policy challenges
Eric R. Wright,Brea L. Perry +1 more
TL;DR: Three central findings in the sociology of health services are discussed: health services in the U.S. are unequally distributed, contributing to health inequalities across status groups; social institutions reproduce health care inequalities by constraining and enabling the actions of health service organizations, health care providers, and consumers; and the structure and dynamics of health care organizations shape the quality, effectiveness, and outcomes of health Services for different groups and communities.
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Reforming Women in the United States and Aotearoa/New Zealand: A Comparative Ethnography of Welfare Reform in Global Context
TL;DR: This article analyzed welfare reform in the United States and Aotearoa/New Zealand, with particular reference to how poor single mothers respond to, comply and cope with, or resist neoliberal strategies.
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Varying Costs to Change? Institutional Change in the Public Sector
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that a particular type of costs produce different logics of institutional change that privilege the state, professionals or private, or political actors in distinct ways.
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Incentive Effects of the U.S. Welfare System: A Review
TL;DR: In this article, the authors acknowledge support for prior work on this topic from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, and helpful comments from three anonymous referees, Rebecca Blank, Howard Chernick, John Fitzgerald, Irwin Garfinkel, Peter Gottschalk, Edward Gramlich, David Greenberg, Judith Gueron, James Heckman, V. Joseph Hotz, Robert Hutchens, Michael Keane, Frank Levy, Larry Mead, Michael Murray, Robert Plotnick, Anuradha Rangarajan, Philip Robins, Howard Rolston,
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Regulating the Poor.
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Work and welfare among single mothers in poverty
TL;DR: The authors examined the relationship between work and welfare in poor, female-headed families by tracing the process through wich single mothers work their way off welfare, and found substantial labor market activity among single mothers on welfare not previously found in studies of welfare dynamics analyzing anual data.
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The poverty of welfare reform
TL;DR: The authors argues that welfare reform, by itself, does not improve the job market, and unless there are more jobs paying more income, we will have done nothing to lessen poverty or reduce welfare.