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eBook details
- Title: The Third Lie
- Author : Richard J Gelles
- Release Date : January 16, 2016
- Genre: Political Science,Books,Politics & Current Events,Nonfiction,Social Science,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 4264 KB
Description
āI am from the government and I am here to help youā is one of the three biggest lies, or so the old joke goes. Richard J. Gelles, dean of social policy at University of Pennsylvania, explains why government programs designed to cure social ills donāt work in sector after sectorā¦and never could work. He demonstrates how each creates its own bureaucracy to monitor participation in the program, an entrenched administrative apparatus whose needs supersede those for whom the program was designed. Against this, he contrasts universal programs such as the GI Bill, Social Security, and Medicare, the most successful, sustained government programs ever established. Gellesās provocative, controversial proposal for a universal entitlement to replace a raft of lumbering social programs should be read by all in social services, policy studies, and government.