A Safety Net That Works - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Safety Net That Works write by Robert Doar. This book was released on 2017-02-13. A Safety Net That Works available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is an edited volume reviewing the major means-tested social programs in the United States. Each author addresses a major program or area, reviewing each area’s successes and recommending how to address shortcomings through policy change. In general, our means-tested programs do many things well, but some adjustments to each could make the system much more effective. This book provides policymakers with a broad overview of the issues at hand in each program and how to address them.
Strengths of the Social Safety Net in the Great Recession
Strengths of the Social Safety Net in the Great Recession - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Strengths of the Social Safety Net in the Great Recession write by Christopher J. O'Leary. This book was released on 2019-08-22. Strengths of the Social Safety Net in the Great Recession available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The contributors in this book use administrative data from six states from before, during, and after the Great Recession to gauge the degree to which Supplemental Nutrition Assistance (SNAP) and Unemployment Insurance (UI) interacted. They also recommend ways that the program policies could be altered to better serve those suffering hardship as a result of future economic downturns.
Public Works as a Safety Net
Public Works as a Safety Net - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Public Works as a Safety Net write by Kalanidhi Subbarao. This book was released on 2012-12-11. Public Works as a Safety Net available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A review of the conceptual underpinnings and operational elements of public works programs around the world., drawing from a rich evidence base and analyzing previously unassimilated data, to fill a gap in knowledge related to public works programs, now so popular.
The Invisible Safety Net
The Invisible Safety Net - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Invisible Safety Net write by Janet Currie. This book was released on 2008-11-10. The Invisible Safety Net available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In one of the most provocative books ever published on America's social welfare system, economist Janet Currie argues that the modern social safety net is under attack. Unlike most books about antipoverty programs, Currie trains her focus not on cash welfare, which accounts for a small and shrinking share of federal expenditures on poor families with children, but on the staples of today's American welfare system: Medicaid, Food Stamps, Head Start, WIC, and public housing. These programs, Currie maintains, form an effective, if largely invisible and haphazard safety net, and yet they are the very programs most vulnerable to political attack and misunderstanding. This book highlights both the importance and the fragility of this safety net, arguing that, while not perfect, it is essential to fighting poverty. Currie demonstrates how America's safety net is threatened by growing budget deficits and by an erroneous public belief that antipoverty programs for children do not work and are riddled with fraud. By unearthing new empirical data, Currie makes the case that social programs for families with children are actually remarkably effective. She takes her argument one step further by offering specific reforms--detailed in each chapter--for improving these programs even more. The book concludes with an overview of an integrated safety net that would fight poverty more effectively and prevent children from slipping through holes in the net. (For example, Currie recommends the implementation of a benefit "debit card" that would provide benefits with less administrative burden on the recipient.) A complement to books such as Barbara Ehrenreich's bestselling Nickel and Dimed, which document the personal struggles of the working poor, The Invisible Safety Net provides a big-picture look at the kind of programs and solutions that would help ease those struggles. Comprehensive and authoritative, it will prompt a major reexamination of the current thinking on improving the lives of needy Americans.
Welfare Doesn't Work
Welfare Doesn't Work - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Welfare Doesn't Work write by Leah Hamilton. This book was released on 2020-02-06. Welfare Doesn't Work available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
