Poverty Policy: A Compendium of Cash Transfer Proposals

ISBN-13: 9781138530546 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 252 str.

Theodore R. Marmor

Opis

Brings together the plans for reducing financial poverty in the United States through cash transfers. This volume is of interest to a wide array of from scholars of public policy and politics to economics and economic theory.

Spis treści

One: The Analysis of Poverty and Poverty Policy; One: Poverty in America: Dimensions and Prospects; Two: Income Maintenance Alternatives: Concepts; Criteria, and Program Comparisons; Two: Welfare Reform Proposals; Three: Public Welfare: A Comprehensive Program of Basic Social Guarantees; Four: The Nixon Administration’s Welfare Reform: The Family Assistance Plan; Explanation of the Bill: Statement of Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Robert H. Finch in Explanation of the Family Assistance Act of 1969; Summary of Family Assistance Act of 1969; Five: NIT: Welfare-Oriented Negative Rates Plan and Negative Rates Plan for the Working Poor; Six: A Family Allowance Program for Preschool Children; Three: Major Antipoverty Proposals; Seven: A Demogrant Approach: The Family Security Program; Eight: Tax Policy and Children’s Allowances; Nine: A Model Negative Income Tax Statute; Ten: The Heineman Commission Proposal. Report of the President’s Commission on Income Maintenance Programs; Four: Tax Equity Proposals; Eleven: A Credit Income Tax; Twelve: Tax Policies for the 1970s

O autorze

Theodore R. Marmor