TY  - BOOK
AU  - Howard,Christopher
TI  - The welfare state nobody knows: debunking myths about U.S. social policy 
SN  - 069112180X (hardcover : alk. paper)
AV  - HN 57 .H68 2007
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - United States
KW  - Social policy
KW  - Social conditions
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [211]-254) and index; I: Basic tour -- She's so unusual -- Tracks of my tiers -- Twice in a lifetime -- II: New horizons -- Ogres, onions, and layers (or, how Republicans built the American welfare state) -- Programs for the poor are not always poor programs -- Shaq is still pretty tall: public support for the American welfare state -- The world according to AARP -- III: Checkpoints and roadblocks -- The American states: laboratories of Democracy or cryogenic chambers? -- Race still matters -- Change versus progress
ER  -