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