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The Promise of Greatness

The Promise of Greatness

Levitan, Sar a.
Taggart, Robert

Paperback

General Sociology

ISBN10: 0674714563
ISBN13: 9780674714564
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: Jan 1 1977
Pages: 320
Weight: 1.11
Height: 0.93 Width: 5.97 Depth: 9.28
Language: English

What is the right social policy for the future? Sar A. Levitan and Robert Taggart have written a book that dispassionately examines recent social programs. They respond to the fashionable arguments that question the results of government intervention and the need to correct social and economic ills. They weigh the charges that new programs have been wasteful, ineffective, and even counterproductive. The authors disprove the notion that recent social programs have failed, that recipients of aid have been hurt more than helped, or that the means and the ends of the last decade's social policies were misconceived.

They base their conclusions upon data gathered by a host of governmental agencies as well as by other scholarly studies. Among their major findings:

-- The expansion of welfare will not continue indefinitely since most of those in need have been reached. In a healthy economy welfare costs will stabilize. In spite of its shortcomings, welfare has resulted in a more equitable, comprehensive system of income protection.

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