Poverty and public policy in modern America

Origins of the institutional state / Michael B. Katz

Among the poor of Chicago / Joseph Kirkland

Consensus for reform : the mothers'-pension movement in the progressive era / Mark H. Leff

Special message on dependent children / Theodore Roosevelt

"A cluster of interlacing communities" : the Cincinnati social unit plan and neighborhood organization, 1900-1920 / Patricia Mooney Melvin

The social unit plan / Robert A. Woods

Bureaucrats as "social engineers" : federal welfare programs in Herbert Hoover's America / Edward D. Berkowitz and Kim McQuaid

Public welfare and our democratic institutions / Joseph K. Hart

Social security : the early years / W. Andrew Achenbaum

Mass misery in Philadelphia / Mauritz A. Hallgren

Address in Cleveland, Ohio, October 15, 1932 / Herbert Hoover

The New Deal and social welfare / Robert H. Bremner

The New Deal and relief / Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward

Annual message to the Congress, January 4, 1935 / Franklin D. Roosevelt

I will not promise the moon : economic security, administration bill, Republican proposal / Alfred M. Landon

Social welfare policies / Richard O. Davies

What should Congress do about health insurance / Robert A. Taft ... [et al.]

Welfare reform in the 1950s / Edward Berkowitz, Kim McQuaid

Special message to the Congress on the health needs of the American people, January 18, 1954 / Dwight D. Eisenhower

Kennedy, Johnson, and the war on poverty / Carl M. Brauer

Special message to the Congress on the needs of the nation's senior citizens, February 21, 1963 / John F. Kennedy

Commencement address at Howard University : "To fulfill these rights," June 4, 1965 ; Remarks with President Truman at the signing in Independence of the Medicare Bill, July 30, 1965 / Lyndon B. Johnson

The revolt against the welfare state : Goldwater conservatism and the election of 1964 / Frank Annunziata

The politics of poverty / Elinor Graham

The Great Society : a libertarian critique / Murray N. Rothbard

Responding to the new dependency : the Family Assistance Plan of 1969 / David A. Rochefort

The objectives of the Reagan administration's social welfare policy / Martin Anderson

Comments / Stuart E. Eizenstat

Remarks on private sector initiatives at a White House luncheon for national religious leaders, April 13, 1982 / Ronald Reagan

The work ethic state / Mickey Kaus.