Author : Rodney S. Haddow
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773516380
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Poverty Reform in Canada, 1958-1978 by : Rodney S. Haddow
Download or read book Poverty Reform in Canada, 1958-1978 written by Rodney S. Haddow and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1993 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rodney Haddow explains and compares the Canada Assistance Plan (CAP) and the Social Security Review, the two most extensive attempts by the federal government to reform Canadian poverty policy during the postwar era. Using previously confidential government documents and interviews with many of the important players, he examines the forces that stimulated the emergence and subsequent development of these two policy initiatives and the circumstances that determined their quite different fates.