Welfare Doesn't Work : The Promises of Basic Income for a Failed American Safety Net Hardback - 2020
by Leah Hamilton
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- Title Welfare Doesn't Work : The Promises of Basic Income for a Failed American Safety Net
- Author Leah Hamilton
- Binding Hardback
- Condition New
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Palgrave Pivot
- Publication date 2020-02-07
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- Bookseller's Inventory # ria9783030371203_inp
- ISBN 9783030371203 / 3030371204
- Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.27 x 5.83 x 0.44 in (21.01 x 14.81 x 1.12 cm)
- Category Business / Economics / Finance
- Quantity available 257
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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.
