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Date: Fri, 10 May 2002 20:27:03 -0700
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From: Bradford DeLong <jbdelong at uclink.berkeley.edu>
Subject: RE: Decline of the Welfare State
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>Not at all.  The welfare state in the New Deal sense went great
>guns until about 1978.  Since then I would say it has had a bumpy
>ride and neither sprang forward nor fell back.
>
>The welfare debate has certainly changed for the worse, but
>there is less to the systemic change than meets the eye.
>
>mbs

Can we distinguish between the social insurance state, which serves
the middle class, and the welfare state, which serves the poor?

Brad DeLong