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The Common Good: Social Welfare and the American Future
Foreword v
1. Reexamining Our Social Welfare System 1
2. Infancy and Childhood: A Time to Sow 10
3. Young Adulthood: Preparing for a World of Work 30
4. The Working Years: Increasing Economic Opportunity and Social Protection 50
5. Old Age: A Time to Reap and Sow Again 68
6. How to Pay the Bill 80
7. Politics, Commitment, and Paying the Bill 85
Appendix A: Notes and Sources 93
Appendix B: Research Funded by the Ford Foundation Project on Social Welfare and the American Future 99
Appendix C: Occasional Papers of the Ford Foundation Project on Social Welfare and the American Future 102