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Amid bitter partisan controversies, it is all too easy to forget what assured health insurance, long-term care for the disabled, and other basic social supports are all about--helping individuals and families in times of need or unanticipated emergency. Campbell is a world-class expert on public social provision, who uses a terrible auto accident that happened to her own young sister-in-law to reveal the sorry state of US social protections for many citizens of modest means and to remind us what is at stake in ongoing efforts to improve vital social protections for all Americans. Her book is at once emotionally wrenching and eye-opening about how far America has to go to create a true safety net for its citizens. --Theda Skocpol, Harvard University and the Scholars Strategy Network

This is a remarkable, astonishing book, at once a comprehensive reference on the American social welfare system and an engaging narrative account of how social assistance programs shape real people's lives. Campbell is authoritative and scholarly, yet warm and personal-a rare combination one sees in the likes of Oliver Sacks and Barbara Ehrenreich. (Deborah A. Stone, Dartmouth College)

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Andrea Louise Campbell is professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She is the author of How Policies Make Citizens.

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