Reforming Social Services in New York City
eBook - ePub

Reforming Social Services in New York City

How Major Change Happens in Urban Welfare Policies

  1. 210 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Reforming Social Services in New York City

How Major Change Happens in Urban Welfare Policies

About this book

Reforming Social Services in New York City examines efforts across six decades to respond to poverty, joblessness, and homelessness through the establishment and periodic restructuring of the city's Human Resources Administration (HRA) and related social welfare agencies.

As Thomas J. Main shows through archival research and interviews with key figures, the HRA has been the focus of several mayoralties. The John Lindsay administration's creation of the HRA in 1966 was a classic liberal effort to fight poverty; Rudy Giuliani brought dramatic change by implementing work-oriented welfare reform; and the Bill de Blasio administration attempted to install a progressive social welfare agenda within the city's social service agencies to reduce inequality. Reforming Social Services in New York City tells the story of these efforts, assessing the strategies employed and the success of their outcomes, concluding that major nonincremental change in urban welfare policy is not only possible but has been effective.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction: Change and Urban Politics
  6. Chapter 1: The HRA under Lindsay
  7. Chapter 2: The HRA under Giuliani’s First Term
  8. Chapter 3: The HRA under Giuliani’s Second Term
  9. Chapter 4: Beginnings of de Blasio’s Welfare Policies
  10. Chapter 5: Overview of the Career Pathways Employment Programs
  11. Chapter 6: Implementation of Career Pathways Welfare Programs
  12. Chapter 7: Career Pathways and the Drive for Coordination
  13. Chapter 8: Early Challenges to de Blasio’s Homelessness Policy
  14. Chapter 9: Later Developments in de Blasio’s Homelessness Policy
  15. Chapter 10: De Blasio, Cuomo, and Trump
  16. Conclusion: How Change Happens in Urban Politics
  17. Notes
  18. Index
  19. Copyright