The End of Welfare?: Consequences of Federal Devolution for the Nation Book

	Acknowledgments
1	The New American Devolution: Problems and Prospects	3
2	New Opportunities/Nagging Questions: The Politics of State Policymaking in the 1990s	25
3	The State Fiscal Predicament under the New Federalism	55
4	How Strong Are State Revenue Systems?	77
5	Growing State Economies: How Taxes and Public Services Affect Private-Sector Performance	95
6	Economic Development and Metropolitan Sprawl: Changing Who Pays and Who Benefits	127
7	State Fiscal Responses to Block Grants: Will the Social Safety Net Survive?	157
8	Fiscal Disparities and Education Finance	194
9	Revenue Sharing as a Public Investment: Why Unrestricted Aid to Local Governments Will Stimulate Municipal Capital Expenditures	228
App	Population, Income, Poverty, and Standardized Fiscal Health (1990)	239
	Index	241
	About the Authors	251
	About EPI	255