Historians of African-America have long noted the exclusion of domestic and agricultural workers from the early years of Social Security, which denied benefits to disproportionately Black workers. Archives of the Social Security Administration and period ethnographies attribute this exclusion to...

Initial provisions of the 1935 Social Security Act excluded disproportionately minority agricultural and domestic workers, occupational groups not enrolled in Social Security until the early 1950s. This article estimates the economic value of the exclusion of these workers, in addition to...

"Social investment is a strategy that addresses neoliberal austerity by putting private capital to public purpose. An investment state serves as a sequel to the welfare state by maximizing capability, expanding employee benefits, implementing evidence-based policy, democratizing polity and...

American social welfare policy -- Social policy and the American welfare state -- A brief history of the American social welfare state -- Social welfare policy research : a framework for policy analysis -- Discrimination in american society -- Poverty in America -- The voluntary and for-profit...

A structural interest theory of social welfare -- A process theory of public policy -- A political theory of social welfare -- The child welfare cartel -- An economic theory of the precariat -- A theory of disruptive innovation -- A devolutionary theory of the welfare state -- An evolutionary...

Pay day lending has become controversial as activists, such as the Center for Responsible Lending (CRL), attempt to restrict its growth. A review of information maintained by the Oklahoma regulatory authority reveals that CRL misrepresents data in order to further its reform agenda. As a...

Machine generated contents note: -- Chapter 1. A THEORY OF THE WELFARE STATE -- Chapter 2. THE TRIUMPH OF PRAGMATISM -- Chapter 3. THE PROMISE OF SOCIAL ENGINEERING -- Chapter 4. THE MARKETPLACE OF IDEAS -- Chapter 5. THE BEST POLICY MONEY CAN BUY -- Chapter 6. THE MEDICAL INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX --...