The Sympathetic State: Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State by Michele Landis Dauber

The Sympathetic State: Disaster Relief and the Origins of the American Welfare State

Michele Landis Dauber

378 pages first pub 2012 (editions)

history politics informative reflective slow-paced
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Even as unemployment rates soared during the Great Depression, FDR’s relief and social security programs faced attacks in Congress and the courts on the legitimacy of federal aid to the growing population of poor. In response, New Dealers pointed ...

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