Take The Rich Off Welfare

Author : Mark Zepezauer
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0896087069

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Take the Rich Off Welfare by Mark Zepezauer Pdf

When the first version of this book came out in 1996, on the heels of "Welfare Reform," it was received with great popular acclaim. As Jim Hightower put it, "At last, the real welfare scandal [is] revealed in one handy little -volume." But the scandal was still in the making. The total amount of taxpayers' money going to subsidize corporations and rich individuals has grown from about $448 billion to over $800 billion--and the amount of that tax money that comes from those flush companies and individuals continues to shrink. In this greatly expanded and updated version of Take the Rich off Welfare, Mark Zepezauer still details who's on the government dole and how much they're getting. This time around, though, he has slowed down his rapid firing of the latest names and numbers in order to reveal how it all works. Using accessible language and revealing graphics, he takes the time to explain how programs once intended to profit the public have been warped to benefit only the corporate bottom line; how administrations manipulate the tax code to slide their extortion from the bottom half past congressional oversight; and how the politicians from both parties employ budget doubletalk and paper trickery to make it look as if the economy isn't being sucked further into a sinkhole in order to line the pockets of the few. A prolific writer of humorous but cutting analyses of government policy and its fallout, Zepezauer provides us with the tools we need to expose the political chicanery of current and past administrations, and make it much more difficult for politicians to play Three Card Monte with our money and our future. To the rallying cry of fiscal conservatives who claim that government must shrink, Zepezauer offers an easy answer. Shrink you. Mark Zepezauer has worked as a journalist, editor and publisher since 1985. His articles, columns and reviews have appeared in the Village Voice, In These Times and the Arizona Daily Star. Zepezauer also wrote two Real Story books (now published by South End Press): The CIA's Greatest Hits (1994) and the first version of Take the Rich Off Welfare (1996), which have sold over 25,000 and 22,000 copies respec

Author : Christopher G. Faricy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-10-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107101012

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Welfare for the Wealthy by Christopher G. Faricy Pdf

This book examines how political party power influences public spending and private subsidies, and how these changes affect inequality.

Author : Jean Swanson
Publisher : Between The Lines
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Discrimination
ISBN : 9781896357447

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Poor-bashing by Jean Swanson Pdf

The special language of poor-bashing disguises the real causes of poverty, hurts and excludes people who are poor, cheapens the labour of people who have jobs, and takes the pressure off the rich. Swanson, a twenty-five year veteran of anti-poverty work, exposes the ideology of poor-bashing in a clear, forceful style. She examines how media "poornography" operates when reporters cover poverty stories. She also reveals how government and corporate clients use poor-bashing focus groups. To make the book even more useful Swanson includes key chapters on the history of poor-bashing.

Author : Phil Harvey,Lisa Conyers
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781642934151

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Welfare for the Rich by Phil Harvey,Lisa Conyers Pdf

Welfare for the Rich is the first book to describe and analyze the many ways that federal and state governments provide handouts—subsidies, grants, tax credits, loan guarantees, price supports, and many other payouts—to millionaires, billionaires, and the companies they own and run. Many journalists, scholars, and activists have focused on one or more of these dysfunctional programs. A few of the most egregious examples have even become famous. But Welfare for the Rich is the first attempt to paint a comprehensive, easily accessible picture of a system largely designed by the richest Americans—through lobbyists, lawyers, political action committees, special interest groups, and other powerful influencers—with the specific goal of making sure the government keeps wealth and power flowing from the many to the few.

Author : Phil Harvey,Lisa Conyers
Publisher : Post Hill Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1642934143

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Welfare for the Rich by Phil Harvey,Lisa Conyers Pdf

In today’s ultra-polarized and highly partisan political environment, Welfare for the Rich is one of the rare books written to appeal to engaged and open-minded citizens from across the political spectrum. Welfare for the Rich is the first book to describe and analyze the many ways that federal and state governments provide handouts—subsidies, grants, tax credits, loan guarantees, price supports, and many other payouts—to millionaires, billionaires, and the companies they own and run. Many journalists, scholars, and activists have focused on one or more of these dysfunctional programs. A few of the most egregious examples have even become famous. But Welfare for the Rich is the first attempt to paint a comprehensive, easily accessible picture of a system largely designed by the richest Americans—through lobbyists, lawyers, political action committees, special interest groups, and other powerful influencers—with the specific goal of making sure the government keeps wealth and power flowing from the many to the few.

Author : James T. Bennett
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351525732

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Corporate Welfare by James T. Bennett Pdf

From the time of Alexander Hamilton's "Report on Manufactures" through the Great Depression, American towns and cities sought to lure footloose companies by offering lavish benefits. These ranged from taxpayer-financed factories, to tax exemptions, to outright gifts of money. This kind of government aid, known as "corporate welfare," is still around today. After establishing its historical foundations, James T. Bennett reveals four modern manifestations.His first case is the epochal debate over government subsidy of a supersonic transport aircraft. The second case has its origins in Southern factory relocation programs of the 1930sthe practice of state and local governments granting companies taxpayer financed incentives. The third is the taking of private property for the enrichment of business interests. The fourthexport subsidieshas its genesis in the New Deal but matured with the growth of the Export-Import Bank, which subsidizes international business exchanges of America's largest corporate entities.Bennett examines the prospects for a successful anti-corporate welfare coalition of libertarians, free market conservatives, Greens, and populists. The potential for a coalition is out there, he argues. Whether a canny politician can assemble and maintain it long enough to mount a taxpayer counterattack upon corporate welfare is an intriguing question.

Author : Irwin Garfinkel,Lee Rainwater,Timothy Smeeding
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199579303

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Wealth and Welfare States by Irwin Garfinkel,Lee Rainwater,Timothy Smeeding Pdf

Including education has profound consequences, undergirding the case for the productivity of welfare state programs and the explanation for why all rich nations have large welfare states, and identifying US welfare state leadership. From 1968 through 2006, the United States swung right politically and lost its lead in education and opportunity, failed to adopt universal health insurance and experienced the most rapid explosion of health care costs and economic inequality in the rich world. The American welfare state faces large challenges. Restoring its historical lead in education is the most important but requires investing large sums in education, beginning with universal pre-school and in complementary programs that aid children's development.

Author : Robert M. Solow
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-10-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781400822645

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Work and Welfare by Robert M. Solow Pdf

The Nobel Prize-winning economist Robert Solow directs his attention here to one of today's most controversial social issues: how to get people off welfare and into jobs. With characteristic eloquence, wit, and rigor, Solow condemns the welfare reforms recently passed by Congress and President Clinton for confronting welfare recipients with an unworkable choice--finding work in the current labor market or losing benefits. He argues that the only practical and fair way to move recipients to work is, in contrast, through an ambitious plan to guarantee that every able-bodied citizen has access to a job. Solow contends that the demand implicit in the 1996 Welfare Reform Act for welfare recipients to find work in the existing labor market has two crucial flaws. First, the labor market would not easily make room for a huge influx of unskilled, inexperienced workers. Second, the normal market adjustment to that influx would drive down earnings for those already in low-wage jobs. Solow concludes that it is legitimate to want welfare recipients to work, but not to want them to live at a miserable standard or to benefit at the expense of the working poor, especially since children are often the first to suffer. Instead, he writes, we should create new demand for unskilled labor through public-service employment and incentives to the private sector--in effect, fair "workfare." Solow presents widely ignored evidence that recipients themselves would welcome the chance to work. But he also points out that practical, morally defensible workfare would be extremely expensive--a problem that politicians who support the idea blithely fail to admit. Throughout, Solow places debate over welfare reform in the context of a struggle to balance competing social values, in particular self-reliance and altruism. The book originated in Solow's 1997 Tanner Lectures on Human Values at Princeton University. It includes reactions from the distinguished scholars Gertrude Himmelfarb, Anthony Lewis, Glenn Loury, and John Roemer, who expand on and take issue with Solow's arguments. Work and Welfare is a powerful contribution to debate about welfare reform and a penetrating look at the values that shape its course.

Author : Eleveld, Anja,Kampen, Thomas
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447340140

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Welfare to Work in Contemporary European Welfare States by Eleveld, Anja,Kampen, Thomas Pdf

With welfare to work programmes under intense scrutiny, this book reviews a wide range of existing and future policies across Europe. Seventeen contributors provide case studies and legal, sociological and philosophical perspectives from around the continent, building a rich picture of welfare to work policies and their impact. They show how many schemes do not adequately address social rights and lived experiences, and consider alternatives based on theories of non-domination. For anyone interested in the justice of welfare to work, this book is an important step along the path towards more fair and adequate legislation.

Author : James Bartholomew
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-31
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781849549080

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The Welfare of Nations by James Bartholomew Pdf

Why is unemployment so low in Switzerland but so high in Spain? Why is social housing more successful in Singapore than in France? Why do welfare states across the world function so differently to Britain's? The twentieth century experienced an epochal war between capitalism and communism, but the real winner of the conflict, James Bartholomew argues, was welfare statism. The defining form of government of our age, welfare states have spread across the advanced world and are changing the very nature of modern civilisation. In his bestselling book The Welfare State We're In, Bartholomew controversially argued that the British welfare state has done more harm than good. Many people - including Lady Thatcher - responded by saying, 'If that is the case, what should we do about it?' Now, in this hard-hitting and provocative new contribution, Bartholomew sets out to answer that question. Travelling across the globe, from Australia in the east to San Francisco in the west, he investigates what happens elsewhere in the world and considers which welfare models Britain could potentially follow. His search for the best education, healthcare and support services takes him to eleven vastly different countries as he teases out the advantages and weaknesses of other nations' welfare states and delves into crucial issues such as literacy, poverty and inequality. What damage is being done by failing welfare states? What lessons can be learned from the best welfare states? And is it too late to stop welfare states permanently diminishing the lives and liberties of people around the world?

Author : Sotirios A. Barber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400825837

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Welfare and the Constitution by Sotirios A. Barber Pdf

Welfare and the Constitution defends a largely forgotten understanding of the U.S. Constitution: the positive or "welfarist" view of Abraham Lincoln and the Federalist Papers. Sotirios Barber challenges conventional scholarship by arguing that the government has a constitutional duty to pursue the well-being of all the people. He shows that James Madison was right in saying that the "real welfare" of the people must be the "supreme object" of constitutional government. With conceptual rigor set in fluid prose, Barber opposes the shared view of America's Right and Left: that the federal constitutional duties of public officials are limited to respecting negative liberties and maintaining processes of democratic choice. Barber contends that no historical, scientific, moral, or metaethical argument can favor today's negative constitutionalism over Madison's positive understanding. He urges scholars to develop a substantive account of constitutional ends for use in critiquing Supreme Court decisions, the policies of elected officials, and the attitudes of the larger public. He defends the philosophical possibility of such theories while also offering a theory of his own as a starting point for the discussion the book will provoke. This theory holds, for example, that voucher schemes which drain resources from secular public schools to schools that would train citizens to submit to religious authority are unconstitutional; First Amendment issues aside, such schemes defeat what is undeniably an element of the "real welfare" of the people, individually and collectively: the capacity to think critically for oneself.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:221096036

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From welfare to work by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 962 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Public welfare
ISBN : PURD:32754066764543

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Contract with America--welfare Reform by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Human Resources Pdf

Author : Sharon Hays
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0195176014

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Flat Broke with Children by Sharon Hays Pdf

This text explores the impact of recent welfare reform on motherhood, marriage, and work in women's lives. It also focuses on what welfare reform reveals about work and family life, and its impact on us all.

Author : Christopher G. Faricy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Equality
ISBN : 1316357457

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Welfare for the Wealthy by Christopher G. Faricy Pdf