TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cogan,John F.
TI  - The high cost of good intentions: a history of U.S. federal entitlement programs 
SN  - 9781503603547 (cloth : alk. paper)
AV  - HJ7543 .C64 2017
U1  - 361.60973 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Stanford University Press
KW  - Entitlement spending
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - Public welfare
KW  - Social security
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 393-477) and index; Creating legislative precedents : Revolutionary War pensions -- An experiment with government trust funds : Navy pensions -- The first great entitlement : Civil War pensions -- Repeating past mistakes : World War I veterans benefits -- Retrenchment : Roosevelt and the veterans -- The birth of the modern entitlement state -- The consequences of social security surpluses -- A new kind of entitlement : the G.I. Bill -- Setting the post-war entitlement agenda : 1946/1950 -- 1951/1964 : establishing social insurance dominance -- The beginning of the great turn in welfare policy : 1951/1964 -- The first Great Society -- A legal right to welfare -- The second Great Society -- First inklings of fiscal limits : 1975/1980 -- A temporary slowdown : 1981/1989 -- Recognition and denial : 1989/2014 -- A challenge unlike any in U.S. history
ER  -