Cash transfers are but one form of income supplementation, and a
fuller presentation of antipoverty proposals would include both
transfers in-kind (such as food, housing, and medical care) and
human investment programs aimed at increasing the earning capacity
of individuals. Much discussion has centered on how to reduce
poverty by getting more cash income in the hands of poor people.
This collection brings together in one accessible volume the most
widely discussed plans for reducing financial poverty in the United
States through cash transfers.
Those who have tried to follow the American debate over cash
transfers will undoubtedly have been struck by the confusing ways
in which proposals are described and compared. Proposed
beneficiaries sometimes provide the basis of comparison, as with
proposals of old-age pensions or child allowances. In other cases,
plans are described and compared as negative income taxes or
welfare reforms by virtue of the administrative changes they imply
or the mechanism for reducing benefits with respect to increased
income. In this book, the proposals have been thoughtfully grouped
to facilitate comparison. Specifically, they have been grouped
according to the social problems which they are intended to solve,
the advantage being that discussion of means is not so likely to
submerge awareness of the ends intended. Arranged in this way, the
proposals in this volume are primarily directed at the problems of
welfare and poverty, and at the inequities in the tax system's
treatment of poor persons. These categories are not, of course,
mutually exclusive; the problems are interrelated and the solutions
to anyone affect the others indirectly.
Organized in a manageable and comprehensive way, this volume
presents some of the widely diverse cash transfer proposals that
grew out of reformist debates. This collection will be of interest
to a wide array of from scholars of public policy and politics to
economics and economic theory.
"Theodore R. Marmor" is professor of public policy and
management and professor of political science at Yale School of
Management. He currently sits on the editorial board of both the
"Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice and
Journal of Health, Politics, Policy, and Law" as well as on the
international advisory board of the London School of Economics
(Health and Social Care). He is an author or co-author of numerous
books and author of over a hundred scholarly articles.
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