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Welfare Doesn't Work: The Promises of Basic Income for a Failed American Safety Net: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee

Autor Leah Hamilton
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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.

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ISBN-13: 9783030371234
ISBN-10: 3030371239
Pagini: 144
Ilustrații: XIII, 144 p.
Dimensiuni: 148 x 210 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2020
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Palgrave Pivot
Seria Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

1. A Tale of Two Ideas.- 2. From Welfare to Work (In Theory).- 3. Perverse Incentives.- 4. Assets and Household Stability.- 5. The Lives of Low-Income Women.- 6. A Two-Tiered Welfare State.- 7. The Most Vulnerable.- 8. The Alternative.

Notă biografică

Leah Hamilton is Associate Professor of Social Work at Appalachian State University, USA. She is an Executive Committee member for the Basic Income Earth Network and President of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina. 

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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.

Caracteristici

Proposes a Universal Basic Income as an alternative to the US welfare state Traces the history of US approaches to poverty alleviation Shows how sexism and racism have informed US welfare programs and how UBI may offer a more just alternative