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Informationen zum Autor Theodore R. Marmor Klappentext Brings together the plans for reducing financial poverty in the United States through cash transfers. This volume is of interest to a wide array of from scholars of public policy and politics to economics and economic theory. Zusammenfassung Brings together the plans for reducing financial poverty in the United States through cash transfers. This volume is of interest to a wide array of from scholars of public policy and politics to economics and economic theory. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
