Welfare Doesn't Work The Promises of Basic Income for a Failed American Safety Net
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Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Erscheinungsdatum
07.02.2020
Verlag
SpringerSeitenzahl
144
Maße (L/B/H)
21.6/15.3/1.4 cm
Gewicht
328 g
Auflage
1st ed. 2020
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-3-030-37120-3
This book explores the incentives and effects of modern welfare policy, contrasted with outcomes of global basic income pilots in the past seventy years. The author contends that paternalistic and counterproductive eligibility rules in the modern American welfare state violate the human dignity of the poor and make it nearly impossible to escape the “poverty trap.” Furthermore, these types of restrictions are absent from expenditures aimed at middle and upper-income households such as mortgage interest deductions and tax-sheltered retirement accounts. Case examples from the author's years as a front-line social worker and interviews with basic income pilot recipients in Ontario, Canada, are woven throughout the book to better illustrate the effects of the current system and the hidden potential of more radical alternatives such as a universal basic income.
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