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Moral Authority, Ideology,
and the Future of
American Social Welfare

Moral Authority,
Ideology, and the
Future of American
Social Welfare

Andrew W. Dobelstein

University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

First published 1999 by Westview Press

Published 2018 by Routledge

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Dobelstein, Andrew W.

Moral authority, ideology, and the future of American social

welfare / Andrew W. Dobelstein.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0-8133-3311-3 (hardcover). ISBN 0-8133-3312-1 (pbk.)

1. Public welfareUnited States. 2. Social valuesUnited

States. 3. IdeologyUnited States. 4. United StatesSocial

policy1993- I. Title.

HV91.D63 1999

361.973dc21

98-29480

CIP

ISBN 13: 978-0-8133-3312-0 (pbk)

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AARP	American Association of Retired Persons
ADC	Aid to Dependent Children
AFDC	Aid to Families with Dependent Children
APWA	American Public Welfare Association
CCC	Civilian Conservation Corps
CETA	Concentrated Employment and Training Act
CORE	Congress of Racial Equality
COS	Charity Organization Society
CPI	consumer price index
CPS	Current Population Survey
DHEW	Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
DHHS	Department of Health and Human Services
DRG	diagnostically related group
EPSDT	early and periodic screening, diagnosis, and treatment
EUC	emergency unemployment compensation
FAP	Family Assistance Plan
FICA	Federal Insurance Corporation of America
FSB	federal supplemental benefits
GAI	guaranteed annual income
GAIN	Greater Avenues to Independence
HCFA	Health Care Financing Agency
JOBS	Job Opportunities and Basic Skills
JTPA	Jobs Training and Partnership Act
MDRC	Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
MDTA	Manpower Development and Training Act
NAACP	National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
NLSY	National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
OAI	Old Age Insurance
OASDHI	Old Age, Survivors, Disability, and Health Insurance
OASDI	Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance
OCSE	Office of Child Support Enforcement
PPI	producer price index
PSID	Panel Study of Income Dynamics
PWA	Public Works Administration
SNCC	Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee
SSI	Supplemental Security Income
TANF	Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
TUC	Temporary Unemployment Compensation
VISTA	Volunteers in Service to America
WCTU	Womens Christian Temperance Union
WIN	Work Incentive Program
WPA	Works Progress Administration

A crisis in welfare has been brewing in America for many years. In some ways it has been a quiet crisis. Poverty, crime, poorly educated children, miserable housing, and other symptoms of social decay have easily been accepted as necessary consequences of a highly advanced, technically oriented society. But in other ways the welfare crisis has been noisy. Loud voices proclaim the futility of increased public spending without much to show for it.

The welfare crisis seemed to come to a head in 1996, when the Republican party won control of the U.S. House of Representatives. Newt Gingrich (R.Ga.) led the Republican revolt with his Contract with America; one of the clauses in this contract called for reforming welfare through limiting welfare support to people who would not work or who gave birth to children out of wedlock. Two years previously, Arkansas governor Bill Clinton had called for similar reforms, promising completely to change welfare.

No one, it seemed, liked welfare. Taxpayers hated it because it cost too much and did too little. Politicians hated it because it made them look liberal if they reflected positive views about it. Welfare clients hated it because it deprived them of their dignity. Even welfare workers hated it because it made them work too hard and paid them too little.

In some ways the attacks on welfare contrasted with less well articulated public sympathy for those in need. As more and more American families struggled to hold two and three jobs in order to stay out of poverty, churches, foundations, corporate executives, and others sought ways to help them. It was the system of welfare that was under attack rather than an erosion of compassion for the poor. Welfare in America had become so complex, so disorganized, so aimless that no one seemed to understand it anymore, let alone think what could be done about it.

Before anything substantive about welfare could be doneeither to improve it or eliminate itpeople had to know something about welfare: how welfare developed, the ideas that gave welfare purpose, and how welfare came to be what it is today. Moreover, with increasing antiwelfare rhetoric it became more and more clear that welfare has not developed in harmony with the rest of America. That welfare does not easily fit into the American scheme of things is no revelation, but the mounting dissatisfaction over the growth in welfare suggests that there are limitations in the American system that prescribe not only how far welfare can grow but also the shape or kind of welfare system America is able to create.

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