The Future of Social Welfare in America
Date
1989
Topic(s)

More than twenty years before Obama's Health Care Reform Act, the report from the American Assembly on The Future of Social Welfare in America advocated improving access to high quality care while containing costs. Participants found that the education system was failing many students, particularly minorities, and asserted that the private sector needs to be involved in its revolutionary reform.  Participants supported comprehensive efforts to reform welfare dependency, seven years before Clinton's welfare reform laws were passed.

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James Steinberg

James Steinberg is currently Deputy Secretary of State. He was previously the Dean of the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and cosponsor of The American Assembly's Next Generation Project. He will assume the position of Dean and Professor of Social Science, International Affairs, and Law at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University in the summer of 2011.