In 1996, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, replaced traditional welfare benefits. TANF provides monthly cash benefits to families with dependent children for up to four years. In addition, households that need help purchasing groceries can apply for the Food Assistance Program. There ...
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Mothers' Work and Children's Lives: Low-Income Families after Welfare Reform This book examines the effects of work requirements imposed by welfare reform on low-income women and their families. The authors pay particular attention ... RC Johnson,A Kalil,RE Dunifon - 《Books from Upjohn Press...
Time limits, increasing employment and training participation requirements, and strict economic sanctions for non-compliance with program expectations, all... K Olson,LD Pavetti 被引量: 88发表: 1996年 On the Way to Work: Welfare Participants and Barriers to Employment The landmark 1996 welfare refo...
The basic requirements are adapted from Shorrocks (1980) and Cowell (2011). For the Schutz example, the approximate amount of reverse PD transfer to increase the Gini coefficient of one to 1.94 is equal to 470, which is different from the exact amount of 577.78 due to the small number of...
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This is because the financing system does not provide a direct barrier to those seeking care at the point of service, unlike, say, cost-sharing requirements. Rather, financing may have an impact through what economists refer to as an income effect; that is, in more regressive systems, poorer...
A UBI is a payment made to all members of a society without any conditions such as work requirements. Philosophers have designed many different forms of the UBI, but in this paper I will be examining three of the leading proposals. Philippe Van Parijs argues for the highest sustainable level...
Qualified dividends also are taxed at capital gains rates. These are dividends distributed with respect to U.S. and certain foreign corporate stock holdings that meet statutory holding-period requirements. To qualify for thecapital gains tax rate, which is usually no higher than 15%, you must ho...
In their book, "Basic Income", Philippe van Parijs and Yannick Vanderborght pick up this critique, arguing that welfare ensnaresbeneficiariesthrough means testing and work requirements and needs to change.14 The employment trap keeps recipients from leaving a job, whatever treatment they receive, fo...