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Social policies for children
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ISBN: 0815736657 Year: 1996 Publisher: Washington (D.C.): Brookings institution

Earnings capacity, poverty, and inequality
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ISBN: 0122758501 9780122758508 Year: 1977 Publisher: New York Academic Press


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Wealth and welfare states : is America a laggard or leader?
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ISBN: 1282501992 9786612501999 0191573728 9780191573729 6612501995 9780199579303 019957930X 9780199579310 0199579318 0191037559 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford Oxford university

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This book explores the role of the welfare state in the overall wealth and well being of nations and in particular looks at the American welfare state in comparison with other developed nations in Europe and elsewhere.It is widely believed that the welfare state undermines productivity and economic growth, that the United States has an unusually small welfare state, and that it is, and always has been, a welfare state laggard. This book shows that all rich nations, including the United States, have large welfare states because the socialized programs that comprise the welfare state-public educa

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