The White Welfare State: The Racialization of U.S. Welfare Policy by Deborah E. Ward
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Overview: The White Welfare State challenges common misconceptions of the development of U.S. welfare policy. Arguing that race has always been central to welfare policy-making in the United States, Deborah Ward breaks new ground by showing that the Mothers’ Pensions–the Progressive-Era precursors to modern welfare programs–were premised on a policy of racial discrimination against blacks and other minorities.
Ward’s rigorous and thoroughly documented analysis demonstrates that the creation and implementation of the mothers’ pensions program was driven by debates about who “deserved” social welfare and not who needed it the most.
Genre: Non-Fiction > History
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