
Reforming Social Services in New York City
How Major Change Happens in Urban Welfare Policies
- 210 pages
- English
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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
- Cover
- Title Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Change and Urban Politics
- Chapter 1: The HRA under Lindsay
- Chapter 2: The HRA under Giuliani’s First Term
- Chapter 3: The HRA under Giuliani’s Second Term
- Chapter 4: Beginnings of de Blasio’s Welfare Policies
- Chapter 5: Overview of the Career Pathways Employment Programs
- Chapter 6: Implementation of Career Pathways Welfare Programs
- Chapter 7: Career Pathways and the Drive for Coordination
- Chapter 8: Early Challenges to de Blasio’s Homelessness Policy
- Chapter 9: Later Developments in de Blasio’s Homelessness Policy
- Chapter 10: De Blasio, Cuomo, and Trump
- Conclusion: How Change Happens in Urban Politics
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright