Through recent decades, America’s social welfare policies have oscillated between two contradictory impulses. The 1960s were marked by a campaign against poverty; in the 1980s, welfare policy was increasingly concerned with fighting dependency. By the early 1990s, when welfare rolls hit an all-time high, the fear of unintended consequences–that welfare was discouraging work and marriage, […]
Gordon Berlin
Gordon L. Berlin is president of the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, which rigorously tests new approaches to the nation's social welfare problems.