Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on AgingPublisher:
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Category : Older people
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
Housing Problems of the Elderly
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on AgingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Older people
Languages : en
Pages : 412
Book Description
FROM THE PURITANS TO THE PROJECTS
Author: Lawrence J. VALEPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674025752
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
From the almshouses of seventeenth-century Puritans to the massive housing projects of the mid-twentieth century, the struggle over housing assistance in the United States has exposed a deep-seated ambivalence about the place of the urban poor. Lawrence J. Vale's groundbreaking book is both a comprehensive institutional history of public housing in Boston and a broader examination of the nature and extent of public obligation to house socially and economically marginal Americans during the past 350 years. First, Vale highlights startling continuities both in the way housing assistance has been delivered to the American poor and in the policies used to reward the nonpoor. He traces the stormy history of the Boston Housing Authority, a saga of entrenched patronage and virulent racism tempered, and partially overcome, by the efforts of unyielding reformers. He explores the birth of public housing as a program intended to reward the upwardly mobile working poor, details its painful transformation into a system designed to cope with society's least advantaged, and questions current policy efforts aimed at returning to a system of rewards for responsible members of the working class. The troubled story of Boston public housing exposes the mixed motives and ideological complexity that have long characterized housing in America, from the Puritans to the projects.
Low-rent Housing Financial Management Handbook
Author: Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States
Author: National Bureau of Economic ResearchPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226533568
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Few United States government programs are as controversial as those designed to aid the poor. From tax credits to medical assistance, aid to needy families is surrounded by debate—on what benefits should be offered, what forms they should take, and how they should be administered. The past few decades, in fact, have seen this debate lead to broad transformations of aid programs themselves, with Aid to Families with Dependent Children replaced by Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, the Earned Income Tax Credit growing from a minor program to one of the most important for low-income families, and Medicaid greatly expanding its eligibility. This volume provides a remarkable overview of how such programs actually work, offering an impressive wealth of information on the nation's nine largest "means-tested" programs—that is, those in which some test of income forms the basis for participation. For each program, contributors describe origins and goals, summarize policy histories and current rules, and discuss the recipient's characteristics as well as the different types of benefits they receive. Each chapter then provides an overview of scholarly research on each program, bringing together the results of the field's most rigorous statistical examinations. The result is a fascinating portrayal of the evolution and current state of means-tested programs, one that charts a number of shifts in emphasis—the decline of cash assistance, for instance, and the increasing emphasis on work. This exemplary portrait of the nation's safety net will be an invaluable reference for anyone interested in American social policy.
Monthly Checklist of State Publications
Author: Library of Congress. Exchange and Gift DivisionPublisher:
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Category : State government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
June and Dec. issues contain listings of periodicals.
Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on AgingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1300
Book Description
The Massachusetts Register
Author: United States Government Organization Manual
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 1616
Book Description
Staff Report on Replies from Federal Agencies to Questionnaire on Intergovernmental Relations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Intergovernmental Relations SubcommitteePublisher:
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Category : Intergovernmental fiscal relations
Languages : en
Pages : 798
Book Description
Staff Report on Replies from Federal Agencies to Questionnaire on Intergovernmental Relations
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government OperationsPublisher:
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Category : Executive departments
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description