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.
| ISBN: | 9783030371234 |
| Publication date: | 7th February 2021 |
| Author: | Leah Hamilton |
| Publisher: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 144 pages |
| Series: | Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee |
| Genres: |
Public finance and taxation Welfare and benefit systems Welfare economics Economic theory and philosophy Public administration |
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.
Welfare Doesn't Work features in the following genres: Public finance and taxation, Welfare and benefit systems, Welfare economics, Economic theory and philosophy, Public administration
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Welfare Doesn't Work was written by Leah Hamilton and published by Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Welfare Doesn't Work has 144 pages
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