Mead's timely and closely reasoned analysis makes a strong intellectual and moral case for a more authoritative welfare policy.
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The main problem with the welfare state, Mead asserts, is its permissiveness, not its size. Too much emphasis is given to ``taking'' (entitlements) and not enough to ``giving'' (social obligations). The challenge to welfare statesmanship, he argues, is not so much either to cut back, the conservative solution, or to increase entitlements, the liberal remedy, as to make them conditional on the willingness of beneficiaries to work. This, he says, is a necessary condition for society's acceptance of the poor into the mainstream. Welfare programs with compulsory work requirements are few so far, but public attitudes and government policies are turning around. Mead's timely and closely reasoned analysis makes a strong intellectual and moral case for a more authoritative welfare policy. Recommended. Harry Frumerman, formerly with Economics Dept., Hunter Coll., CUNY
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Mead's Beyond Entitlement broke the old politics of welfare, where the left cried for more money for welfare while the right barked for less. Mead shifted the argument to the question of citizen obligation, as in, "what ought be expected of those who receive welfare?" Asking this question broke the political gridlock and opened the doors for welfare reform. His view can be called big government conservatism, which holds that the able-bodied must work but insists that government must provide support (like day care) to enable welfare recipients to hold work.
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civic conservatives, employable recipients, functioning requirements, welfare hearings, working recipients, federal social policy, other civilities, work enforcement, civic approach, civic position, common obligations, functioning standards, federal politicians, federal politics, work obligation, sociological reasoning, guaranteed income, effective offices, welfare class, functioning problems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Society, New Deal, Social Security, New York, Russell Long, United States, Martha Griffiths, Finance Committee, Reagan Administration, Unemployment Insurance, Wilbur Mills, Daniel Moynihan, Supreme Court, Carter Administration, Government Printing Office, Employment Service, Michael Harrington, George Wiley, Dependent Children, National Welfare Rights Organization, President Nixon, Public Welfare, Senator Carl Curtis, Supplemental Security Income, Nixon Administration New!
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civic conservatives, employable recipients, functioning requirements, welfare hearings, working recipients, federal social policy, other civilities, work enforcement, civic approach, civic position, common obligations, functioning standards, federal politicians, federal politics, work obligation, sociological reasoning, guaranteed income, effective offices, welfare class, functioning problems Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Society, New Deal, Social Security, New York, Russell Long, United States, Martha Griffiths, Finance Committee, Reagan Administration, Unemployment Insurance, Wilbur Mills, Daniel Moynihan, Supreme Court, Carter Administration, Government Printing Office, Employment Service, Michael Harrington, George Wiley, Dependent Children, National Welfare Rights Organization, President Nixon, Public Welfare, Senator Carl Curtis, Supplemental Security Income, Nixon Administration New!
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