Welfare magnets : a new case for a national standard /
""The best way of handling the question of how much to give the poor, politicians have discovered, is to avoid doing anything about it at all,"" note Paul Peterson and Mark Rom. The issue of the minimum people need in order to live decently is so difficult that Congress has left...
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Washington, D.C. :
Brookings Institution
©1990.
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| Online Access: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7864/jj.11589094 |
Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Contents
- Chapter 1: Is There a Problem?
- Who Should Determine Welfare Policy?
- The Current Welfare Policymaking System
- Differences in Cost of Living and Wages
- Advantages for the Poor of a National Standard
- The Plan of the Book
- Chapter 2: Welfare Politics: A Case Study
- The Welfare Magnet Issue
- The Economy and Business Climate
- A Moralistic Political Culture
- A Competitive Political System
- The Politics of the Welfare Magnet
- Chapter 3: State Welfare Policies and Residential Choices
- Theories of State Policymaking
- Research Design
- A Simultaneous Model of Change
- Determinants of Poverty Rates and Welfare Benefits
- Conclusions
- Chapter 4: The Evolution of Welfare Policy
- Mother's Pensions
- Establishing a Federal Welfare System
- Further Attempts to Standardize ADC
- The Increasing Federal Role
- Chapter 5: Establishing a National Welfare Standard
- A Moderate Proposal
- The Feasibility of Welfare Reform
- Appendixes
- A. Early Research on Welfare Migration
- B. Definition and Sources of Variables
- C. Alternative Analyses
- D. Variables Not Included in the Analysis
- E. Welfare Statistics, Current and Proposed, by State
- Index
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- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
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