TY - BOOK AU - Cogan,John F. TI - The high cost of good intentions: a history of U.S. federal entitlement programs SN - 9781503604254 AV - HJ7543 .H544 2017 PY - 2017/// CY - Stanford, California PB - Stanford University Press KW - Entitlement spending KW - United States KW - History KW - Public welfare KW - Social security KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; Creating legislative precedents : Revolutionary War pensions --; An experiment with government trust funds : Navy pensions --; The first great entitlement : Civil War pensions --; Repeating past mistakes : World War I veterans benefits --; Retrenchment : Roosevelt and the veterans --; The birth of the modern entitlement state --; The consequences of social security surpluses --; A new kind of entitlement : the G.I. Bill --; Setting the post-war entitlement agenda : 1946/1950 --; 1951/1964 : establishing social insurance dominance --; The beginning of the great turn in welfare policy : 1951/1964 --; The first Great Society --; A legal right to welfare --; The second Great Society --; First inklings of fiscal limits : 1975/1980 --; A temporary slowdown : 1981/1989 --; Recognition and denial : 1989/2014 --; A challenge unlike any in U.S. history; 2; b UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1573882&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -