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Welfare Doesn't Work - The Promises of Basic Income for a Failed American Safety Net (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020) Loot Price: R1,890
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Welfare Doesn't Work - The Promises of Basic Income for a Failed American Safety Net (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020): Leah...

Welfare Doesn't Work - The Promises of Basic Income for a Failed American Safety Net (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)

Leah Hamilton

Series: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee

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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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Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin: Switzerland
Series: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee
Release date: February 2020
First published: 2020
Authors: Leah Hamilton
Dimensions: 210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 144
Edition: 1st ed. 2020
ISBN-13: 978-3-03-037120-3
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Public administration
Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Economic theory & philosophy
Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social welfare & social services > Welfare & benefit systems
Books > Business & Economics > Finance & accounting > Finance > Public finance > General
Books > Money & Finance > Public finance > General
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LSN: 3-03-037120-4
Barcode: 9783030371203

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