The Price of Citizenship – Redefining the American Welfare State Katz Paperback

The Price of CitizenshipRedefining the American Welfare State\nAuthor(s): Michael B. Katz\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Pennsylvania Press, United States\nImprint: University of Pennsylvania Press\nISBN-13: 9780812220186, 978-0812220186\nSynopsis\nFor Michael B. Katz, the term \""welfare state\"" describes the intricate web of government programs, employer-provided benefits, and semiprivate organizations intended to promote economic security and to guarantee the basic necessities of life for all citizens: food, shelter, medical care, protection in childhood, and support in old age. In this updated edition of his seminal work The Price of Citizenship, Katz traces the evolution of the welfare state from colonial relief programs through the war on poverty and into our own age, marked by the \""end of welfare as we know it.\""\n Katz argues that in the last decades, three great forces-a ferocious war on dependence, which has singled out the most vulnerable; the devolution of a.