02119cam a2200349 i 4500 47490 47490 BJBSDDR 20230410115748.0 ta 170302s2017 cau b 001 0 eng c 9781503603547 (cloth : alk. paper) 19621628 CSt/DLC eng CSt Eng pcc n-us--- HJ 7543 C676h 2017 361.60973 23 Cogan, John F. The high cost of good intentions : a history of U.S. federal entitlement programs / John F. Cogan. Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2017] xii, 500 pages ; 24 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-477) and index. Creating legislative precedents : Revolutionary War pensions -- An experiment with government trust funds : Navy pensions -- The first great entitlement : Civil War pensions -- Repeating past mistakes : World War I veterans benefits -- Retrenchment : Roosevelt and the veterans -- The birth of the modern entitlement state -- The consequences of social security surpluses -- A new kind of entitlement : the G.I. Bill -- Setting the post-war entitlement agenda : 1946/1950 -- 1951/1964 : establishing social insurance dominance -- The beginning of the great turn in welfare policy : 1951/1964 -- The first Great Society -- A legal right to welfare -- The second Great Society -- First inklings of fiscal limits : 1975/1980 -- A temporary slowdown : 1981/1989 -- Recognition and denial : 1989/2014 -- A challenge unlike any in U.S. history. Entitlement spending United States History. Public welfare United States History. Social security United States History. Prestaciones sociales. Estados Unidos 529 Seguridad social Estados Unidos 530 Online version: Cogan, John F., author. High cost of good intentions Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2017 9781503604254 (DLC) 2017022252 lcc BK dvf 0 0 0 0 CS BJB BJB CS 2023-04-10 0 HJ 7543 C676h 2017 00000123156 2018-10-24 00:00:00 1 2018-10-24 BK