Introduction -- Congress passes a law, the labor movement unites, and Walter George retires -- What happened to the disability program and how policy makers tried to respond -- Wilbur Mills, Wilbur Cohen, and Nelson Cruikshank curate Medicare -- The consequences of Medicare from accommodation to...

The Other Welfare -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Creating a New Welfare Program: The Politics of Welfare and Social Security Reform in the Nixon Administration -- 2. A Year in Transition: Why Planning for the New Program Became Difficult -- 3. Launching the Program: Why the Program...

In this paper we develop an approach to measuring inequality and poverty that recognizes the fact that individuals within households may have both different preferences and differential access to resources. We argue that a measure based on estimates of the sharing rule is inadequate as an...