Welfare Doesn't Work: The Promises of Basic Income for a Failed American Safety Net

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Leah Hamilton

Welfare Doesn't Work

The Promises of Basic Income for a Failed American Safety Net

Leah Hamilton

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English

Springer Nature Switzerland AG
07 February 2021

Welfare & benefit systems; Public administration; Economic theory & philosophy; Welfare economics; Public finance

Series: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee

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.

By: Leah Hamilton
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 2020 ed.
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 148mm,
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9783030371234
ISBN 10: 3030371239
Series: Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee
Pages: 144
Publication Date: 07 February 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. A Tale of Two Ideas.- 2. From Welfare to Work (In Theory).- 3. Perverse Incentives.- 4. Assets and Household Stability.- 5. The Lives of Low-Income Women.- 6. A Two-Tiered Welfare State.- 7. The Most Vulnerable.- 8. The Alternative.

Leah Hamilton is Associate Professor of Social Work at Appalachian State University, USA. She is an Executive Committee member for the Basic Income Earth Network and President of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina.