Welfare Reform in the Early Republic: A Brief History with Documents
| By: | Seth Rockman |
| Publisher: | Waveland Press, Inc. |
| Print ISBN: | 9781478622505 |
| eText ISBN: | 9781478622499 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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In the decades following the American Revolution, elected officials, moral crusaders, and relief administrators scrutinized the public welfare programs that assisted thousands of impoverished people. The author uses an array of documents—from sermons to almshouse admission rolls—to show how reformers investigated the causes of poverty and pursued solutions that varied from massive institutionalization of the poor to the total abolition of public charity. These issues are remarkably similar to the welfare debates of today.