Poverty Policy
A Compendium of Cash Transfer Proposals
1st Edition
Published on 15. January 2008
Book
Paperback/Softback
252 pages
978-0-202-36170-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Somerset
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
374 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-202-36170-3 (9780202361703)
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Person
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.
Content
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