Reagan Block Grants, The

George E. Peterson, Randall R. Bovbjerg, Barbara A. Davis, Walter G. Davis, Eugene C. Durman

The authors of this volume identify the practical lessons of the Reagan experiment to encourage greater responsibility for state and local governments to administer block grants, and examine the history of state and local program spending for those programs folded into the Reagan block grants for health and human services.

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