How can we identify who benefits from government programs aimed at solving our social problem and who pays for them? With so many problems, how can we allocate scarce funds to promote the maximum well-being of our citizens? In this book, Alice M. Rivlin examines the contributions that systematic analysis has made to decision making in the government's "social action" programs.
Rivlin examines the contributions that systematic analysis has made to decisionmaking in the governments social action programs-- education, health, manpower training, and income maintenance. Drawing on her own experience in government, Mrs. Rivlin indicates where the analysts have been helpful in finding solutions and where-- because of inadequate data or methods-- they have been no help at all.
