 | The Other Welfare: Supplemental Security Income and U.S. Social Policy Subjects: Supplemental security income program -- United States -- History; Public welfare -- United States -- History; United States -- Social policy; The first comprehensive history of Supplemental Security Income (SSI), written by a leading historian of America's welfare state and the former chief historian of the Social Security Administration. Edward D. Berkowitz is Pro fessor of History and Public Policy and Public Administration at George Washington University. He is the author of several books, including Mass Appeal: The Formative Age of the Movies, Radio, and TV and Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies as well as many books and articles on Social Security and the welfare state. Larry DeWitt is Former Public Historian, U.S. Social Security Administration, and coauthor with Edward D. Berkowitz and Daniel Beland of Social Security: A Documentary History . |
