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Paperback Building the Invisible Orphanage: A Prehistory of the American Welfare System Book

ISBN: 0674005546

ISBN13: 9780674005549

Building the Invisible Orphanage: A Prehistory of the American Welfare System

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In 1996, America abolished its long-standing welfare system in favor of a new and largely untried public assistance program. Welfare as we knew it arose in turn from a previous generation's rejection of an even earlier system of aid. That generation introduced welfare in order to eliminate orphanages.

This book examines the connection between the decline of the orphanage and the rise of welfare. Matthew Crenson argues that the prehistory...

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