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State and Local Government, Fifth Edition
Ann O'M. Bowman, University of South Carolina
Richard C. Kearney, East Carolina University
Chapter Outlines
Chapter Seventeen: Social Welfare and Health Care Policy

I. The Meaning of Poverty

II. Social Welfare and Ideology
A. The Origins of Social Welfare Policy
B. A Social Welfare Consensus
III. Current Social Welfare Policy

IV. Types of Social Welfare Programs
A. Direct Cash Transfers
B. In-Kind Programs
C. Social Insurance
V. State Innovations in Social Welfare
A. Saving the Children
B. Day Care
C. Unmarried Teenage Mothers
VI. Turning Welfare Checks into Paychecks

VII. Health Care
A. The Problem
B. State Innovation
C. State Health Care Reform Moves Forward


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