This book analyzes the politics of social programs that are well known (such as Social Security and welfare) and less well known but still important (such as wo

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The welfare state has been under attack for decades, but now more than ever there is a need for strong social protection systems—the best tools we have to com

Despite costing hundreds of billions of dollars and subsidizing everything from homeownership and child care to health insurance, tax expenditures (commonly kno

Despite high levels of inequality and wage stagnation over several decades, the United States has done relatively little to address these problems—at least in