The American Welfare State: Laggard or Leader?*
Irwin Garfinkel
Mitchell I. Ginsberg Professor of Contemporary Urban Problems, Co-Director of the Columbia Population Research Center, Columbia University, and IRP Affiliate and Former IRP Director
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*This lecture drew from the book Wealth and Welfare States: Is America a Laggard or Leader?, by Irwin Garfinkel, Lee Rainwater, and Timothy Smeeding. Available March 2010 from Oxford University Press.