Title Welfare doesn't work : the promises of basic income for a failed American safety net / Leah Hamilton

Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 144 pages) Series Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee Exploring the basic income guarantee. Contents Intro -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Ideas -- A Very Brief History of Welfare in Early Europe -- American Bootstraps -- The Civil Rights Movement -- Race and Welfare -- The Conservative Revolution -- Where We Stand Today -- References -- Chapter 2: From Welfare to Work (In Theory) -- The Role of Minority Labor -- Mechanization and Globalization -- Welfare "Reform": Work Requirements, Sanctions, and Other Bad Ideas -- Workers with Disabilities -- Basic Income and Work -- References -- Chapter 3: Perverse Incentives -- Paternalism and Social Policy Are Most Welfare Recipients Black, Latinx, or Immigrants? -- Do Welfare Recipients Work? -- Do Welfare Recipients Use More Drugs? -- Do Welfare Recipients Misuse Their Funds? -- Do Welfare Recipients Remain on Assistance Long Term? -- Do Recipients Have Additional Children So They Can Get More Welfare? -- Welfare and Behavioral Incentives -- Poverty and Human Behavior -- A Cure for Bad Choices? -- Basic Income and Behavior -- References -- Chapter 4: Assets and Household Stability -- Wealth Inequality in America -- Do the Poor Lack Financial Literacy? -- The Policy Landscape Temporary Assistance for Needy Families -- Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program/Food Stamps -- Medicaid -- Supplemental Security Income -- Implications of Asset Limits -- Program Participation -- Asset Holdings and Financial Behaviors -- Labor Market Outcomes -- Vehicle Ownership -- Administrative Costs -- Basic Income and Assets -- References -- Chapter 5: The Lives of Low-Income Women -- A Woman's Place -- Aid to [Virtuous Women with] Dependent Children -- Morality and Virtue -- Feminization of Poverty -- Basic-Income Outcomes for Women -- References Chapter 6: A Two-Tiered Welfare State -- Welfare Expenditures by Social Class -- Bureaucratic Hurdles and Administrative Cost -- Morality and Class -- Empathy and Race -- Welfare and Democracy -- Equality Through a Basic Income -- References -- Chapter 7: The Most Vulnerable -- A History of Child Welfare in America -- Signs of Progress -- A Hard Right Turn -- Welfare Outcomes for Children -- Basic Income Outcomes for Children -- References -- Chapter 8: The Alternative -- How Would a Basic Income Work? -- Would the Poor Be Worse Off? -- What Would People Do with a Basic Income? -- References Summary "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." Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Public welfare -- United States. Public welfare -- Law and legislation -- United States. Basic income -- United States Welfare state -- United States Welfare state Basic income Public welfare Public welfare -- Law and legislation United States Form Electronic book ISBN 9783030371210 3030371212

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