Income Transfer Policy in the United States
Author | : Irwin Garfinkel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Income maintenance programs |
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Author | : Irwin Garfinkel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 52 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Income maintenance programs |
ISBN | : |
Author | : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Fiscal Policy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 540 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Income maintenance programs |
ISBN | : |
Author | : National Bureau of Economic Research |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2003-10-15 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780226533568 |
Few United States government programs are as controversial as those designed to aid the poor. From tax credits to medical assistance, aid to needy families is surrounded by debate—on what benefits should be offered, what forms they should take, and how they should be administered. The past few decades, in fact, have seen this debate lead to broad transformations of aid programs themselves, with Aid to Families with Dependent Children replaced by Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, the Earned Income Tax Credit growing from a minor program to one of the most important for low-income families, and Medicaid greatly expanding its eligibility. This volume provides a remarkable overview of how such programs actually work, offering an impressive wealth of information on the nation's nine largest "means-tested" programs—that is, those in which some test of income forms the basis for participation. For each program, contributors describe origins and goals, summarize policy histories and current rules, and discuss the recipient's characteristics as well as the different types of benefits they receive. Each chapter then provides an overview of scholarly research on each program, bringing together the results of the field's most rigorous statistical examinations. The result is a fascinating portrayal of the evolution and current state of means-tested programs, one that charts a number of shifts in emphasis—the decline of cash assistance, for instance, and the increasing emphasis on work. This exemplary portrait of the nation's safety net will be an invaluable reference for anyone interested in American social policy.
Author | : James R. Storey |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1620 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : China |
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Author | : Marilyn Moon |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2007-12-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0226535061 |
In recent years the definition of an economic transfer—a payment to an individual or institution that does not arise out of current productive activity—has been subject to even wider interpretation. This volume addresses that trend and introduces new methods of measuring transfers in the American economy. Social security, private pension benefits, housing, and health care are traditional kinds of transfers. Accurate measurements of the degree and effect of these and of other, newly interpreted transfers are vital to economic policy making. Though this volume is not directly concerned with policy-making issues, it does impinge on many areas of current public concern; methods of transfer valuation, for example, may affect how we view the status of the aged. Researchers, policy analysts, and those who compile statistics on which social programs are based on will value the diverse approaches of these ten papers and their accompanying comments. Taken together the essays give great insight into the complexities of defining transfers and provide a wealth of new analytic methods. They were developed from material presented at the Income and Wealth Conference on Social Accounting for Transfers held at Madison, Wisconsin, in 1982.
Author | : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Fiscal Policy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 139 |
Release | : 1972 |
Genre | : Guaranteed annual income |
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Author | : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee. Subcommittee on Fiscal Policy |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1972 |
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Author | : David S. North |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 74 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : |
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Author | : Robert A. Moffitt |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2016-11-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 022639252X |
Few government programs in the United States are as controversial as those designed to help the poor. From tax credits to medical assistance, the size and structure of the American safety net is an issue of constant debate. These two volumes update the earlier Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States with a discussion of the many changes in means-tested government programs and the results of new research over the past decade. While some programs that experienced falling outlays in the years prior to the previous volume have remained at low levels of expenditure, many others have grown, including Medicaid, the Earned Income Tax Credit, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, and subsidized housing programs. For each program, the contributors describe its origins and goals, summarize its history and current rules, and discuss recipients’ characteristics and the types of benefits they receive. This is an invaluable reference for researchers and policy makers that features detailed analyses of many of the most important transfer programs in the United States.
Author | : David S. North |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 80 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Aliens |
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