Robert Ball and the Politics of Social Security.Robert Robert, Henry Martyn 1837-1923. American army engineer and parliamentary authority. He designed the defenses for Washington, D.C., during the Civil War and later wrote Robert's Rules of Order (1876). Noun 1. Ball And The Politics Of Social Security Edward D. Berkowitz University of Wisconsin Press The University of Wisconsin Press (or UW Press), founded in 1936, is a university press that is part of the Graduate School of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States. It published under its own name and the imprint The Popular Press. 1930 Monroe Street, Third Floor, Madison, WI 53711-2059 0299189548 $26.95 1-800-621-2736 www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress From his work as a field representative in 1939, to his appointment as Commissioner of Social Security by President John Kennedy in 1962, through his influential role as advisor to later presidential administrations, no one exerted more influence over the creation and evolution of Social Security and Medicare Medicare, national health insurance program in the United States for persons aged 65 and over and the disabled. It was established in 1965 with passage of the Social Security Amendments and is now run by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. than Robert Ball. Indeed, it was Robert Ball who in 1947 wrote what became the key statement defining why social insurance, not welfare, should be America's primary income maintenance program. Robert Ball And The Politics Of Social Security by Edward D. Berkowitz (Professor of History and Director of the Program in History and Public Policy at George Washington University George Washington University, at Washington, D.C.; coeducational; chartered 1821 as Columbian College (one of the first nonsectarian colleges), opened 1822, became a university in 1873, renamed 1904. ) is the complete and detailed story of how Robert Ball used the conservative means of social insurance as an alternative to the liberal inclination inclination, in astronomy, the angle of intersection between two planes, one of which is an orbital plane. The inclination of the plane of the moon's orbit is 5°9' with respect to the plane of the ecliptic (the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun). to expand the welfare state. This is a biographically oriented o·ri·ent n. 1. Orient The countries of Asia, especially of eastern Asia. 2. a. The luster characteristic of a pearl of high quality. b. A pearl having exceptional luster. 3. history of American politics and policy that continues to be a highly charged and evolving political issue today with George W. Bush's announced goal of replacing Social Security with private accounts. An impressive account, Robert Ball And The Politics Of Social Security is a welcome and strongly recommended addition to community and academic library 20th Century American History and Political Science collections. |
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