The Work versus Welfare Trade-Off: 2013

[birdwatcher]

In 1995, the Cato Institute published a groundbreaking study, The Work vs. Welfare Trade-Off, which estimated the value of the full package of welfare benefits available to a typical recipient in each of the 50 states and the District of Columbia. It found that not only did the value of such benefits greatly exceed the poverty level but, because welfare benefits are tax-free, their dollar value was greater than the amount of take-home income a worker would receive from an entry-level job.

Since then, many welfare programs have undergone significant change, including the 1996 welfare reform legislation that ended the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program and replaced it with the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program. Accordingly, this paper examines the current welfare system in the same manner as the 1995 paper. Welfare benefits continue to outpace the income that most recipients can expect to earn from an entry-level job, and the balance between welfare and work may actually have grown worse in recent years.

Comments

[birdwatcher.livejournal.com]

Это даже в самом общем виде неочевидно, еще более неочевидно, что сколько-то налогов надо тратить на велфер, и уж совсем непоянтно, как это последнее действие может считаться милосердием. Со стороны кого, налогового инспектора или запуганных насилием налогоплательщиков??

[misha-b.livejournal.com]

Что неочевидно -- что сбор налогов насилие или, что он необходим?

[birdwatcher.livejournal.com]

Что он необходим, конечно.

[misha-b.livejournal.com]

Какая альтернатва?

[birdwatcher.livejournal.com]

анархокапитализм

[misha-b.livejournal.com]

Утопия.

[birdwatcher.livejournal.com]

Пусть будет утопия, какая разница.