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| | Welfare state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Another criticism is that the welfare state often provides its dependents with a similar level of income to the minimum wage, encouraging benefit fraud and economic inactivity, especially common now in the UK and France. | | | A fourth criticism of the welfare state is the belief that welfare services provided by the state are more expensive and less efficient than the same services would be if provided by private businesses. | | | They believe that the welfare state was created (In 1948 in the UK)to provide a carefully selected number of people with a subsistence level of benefits in order to alleviate poverty, but that it has been overly expanded to provide a large number of people indiscriminately with more money than the country can afford. |
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| | BRIA(14:3) Welfare, How Welfare Began, History of, Reform, Welfare to Work, Europe, Sweden, Welfare in Europe |
| | Welfare should be a state government responsibility so that each of the 50 states will be free to design its own qualifications and levels of support. | | | Welfare should be a national government responsibility so that needy single mothers of dependent children, elderly, and disabled persons in every part of the country can get support when they meet certain qualifications. | | | Surprisingly, the SDP, the party that created the welfare state, announced a program of spending cuts and tax increases to reduce the government deficit. |
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| | Welfare Reform: An Analysis of the Issues |
| | Second, current law creates an incentive for greater welfare spending in the poorest states because the federal share of welfare spending is highest in states with low per-capita incomes. | | | In sum, although welfare recipients face high penalties on added earnings that discourage work, eliminating such disincentives extends eligibility for welfare to a larger population, reduces the work effort of people who join the rolls because of the increased income eligibility cutoff, and may not be cost effective for these reasons. | | | Current welfare reform proposals have revived debate over devolving welfare policy to the states and financing the transfer by block grants. |
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| | Washingtonpost.com: Welfare Special Report |
| | The welfare "reform" of the Clinton era consists of two major elements: a revolutionary change in the basic goals set by the federal government; and a dramatic "devolution" of responsibility – turning what used to be a federal, centralized system over to the states. | | | Now it is conservatives who most strongly support certain welfare rules, including the family cap and a requirement that most teenage parents live with their own parents in order to receive benefits. | | | Supporters of the recent changes in welfare maintain that they will be good for the poor, bringing many of them out of subsidized poverty and into the world of work. |
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| | NewsHour:Welfare |
| | Welfare/Daycare Dilemma Welfare reform plans around the country are requiring those on public assistance to find a job or lose benefits. | | | November 18, 1997 -- Disabling Benefits Welfare reform is affecting disabled children, and threatening their eligibility for supplemental security income. | | | From Welfare To Work Lee Hochberg reports on the transition made by of hundreds of people nationwide whove moved from welfare to work as part of corporate programs to hire people on assistance. |
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| | The Welfare State |
| | Less clear, but probably even more important, is the general concern to ensure that public expenditure on welfare is directly compatible with the need for economic development and growth. | | | In addition to federal and state activity, there are extensive private, mutualist and corporate interests in welfare provision. | | | The United States is sometimes described as a ‘liberal' welfare regime, in the sense that it represents individualism, laissez-faire, residualism and a punitive view of poverty. |
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| | Welfare |
| | Welfare for the poor (AFDC and Food Stamps) totaled $50 billion in 1992, but welfare for corporations (pork-barrel projects, business subsidies and tax breaks) are estimated to run from $85 billion to $800 billion, depending on which think tank you listen to. | | | If you expand the definition of "welfare" to include all one-way transfers of benefits (such as student grants, school lunches and pensions for needy veterans), then welfare takes up only 12 percent of the combined budgets. | | | Together, AFDC and Food Stamps are by far the largest items of the welfare budget. |
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http://www.huppi.com/kangaroo/7Welfare.htm
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| | VDARE.com: 08/19/03 - National Data: Immigrant Welfare Scandal Continues |
| | The Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) is not a welfare program, but part of the tax code. | | | The most immigrant-subsidizing benefit of all was not even addressed by the 1996 welfare reform. | | | But current policy is importing immigrants whose welfare dependency is actually worse than ours. |
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| | Links to the world - welfare |
| | Public Agenda Online: Poverty and Welfare -- "The inside source for public opinion and policy analysis" offers background, facts presented graphically, poll data, a digest of recent news stories, and much more on the topic of welfare. | | | This site contains their recent publications, including materials on welfare policy. | | | American Public Human Services Association -- Top news stories, news from the states, and the history of welfare reform from 1993 to 1998. |
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| | Common Cause Urges an End to Corporate Welfare |
| | Corporate welfare comes in various guises: direct payments to companies, provision of public goods or services at below-market value, federal purchases of goods or services at above-market value, federal tax breaks, and exemptions from otherwise applicable laws. | | | Corporate welfare remains an intractable part of the federal budget in large part because campaign contributions flow to Members of Congress from those special interests that benefit from corporate welfare programs. | | | An independent commission on corporate welfare and an expedited process for implementing that commission's recommendations that would be established by S. 1376 is one way to ensure that these powerfully backed programs are subject to the same scrutiny as other budget items. |
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| | Welfare - Wex |
| | The law governing entitlement and benefit to any one of these welfare programs is complex. | | | In addition to establishing two major "social insurance" programs to respond to future income loss (Social Security and Unemployment compensation), the Social Security Act of 1935 launched federal grants to support state welfare programs for low-income elderly and families with children. | | | In the United States, welfare benefits for individuals and families with no or low income had been almost non-existent prior to the Great Depression of the 1930s. |
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| | The Heritage Foundation: Welfare |
| | When Congress reauthorizes Temporary Assistance to Needy Families this year, it should ensure that all able-bodied welfare recipients are required to work or undertake other... | | | The current welfare system financially penalizes unmarried parents who wish to wed, despite the fact that an increased marriage rate among welfare recipients is both... | | | The 1996 welfare reform began necessary changes in the disastrous old welfare system, yet much more remains to be done. |
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| | Welfare reform. By Jonah Edelman, Ron Haskins, and Mickey Kaus |
| | For welfare recipients who were already working (perhaps the majority), and for many of those whom didn't work before the 1996 welfare bill gave states like Wisconsin control of their own welfare-to-work programs, all it took was a strictly enforced work requirement to move them off the rolls. | | | A big reason DeParle's subjects don't think welfare reform was an epic, central event in their lives is that, to them, it didn't replace "welfare" with "work" in some night/day switch—it simply took away one leg of the three-legged stool. | | | On welfare 12 years, with four kids and little work experience, Angie is the kind of person about whom liberals worried and conservatives fumed. |
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| | Corporate welfare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Corporate welfare is a pejorative term, first coined by Ralph Nader in 1956, describing a government's bestowal of grants and/or tax breaks on corporations or other "special favorable treatment" from the government. | | | Another common example often derided as "corporate welfare" is when a large company is nearing collapse, and is given substantial breaks or financial support by the government to keep it in business. | | | Some object to the term "corporate welfare" on the grounds that the term plays on negative stereotypes about welfare payments to poor people, and may suggest that the poor are as undeserving of government "handouts" as corporations are. |
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| | Corporate Welfare Information Center |
| | Clinton and Congress Fail to Eliminate Corporate Welfare (includes corporate welfare increases in Clinton's 1998 Budget Proposal) --> | | | This is a list of the 8 corporate welfare recipients that were listed in the first article of the Inquirer series, comparing corporate welfare received to the number of people layed off in that time (1990-1994). | | | Welfare recieved Employment GM $110,600,000 -104,000 IBM 58,000,000 -100,000 AT&T 35,000,000 -1,077 * # GE 25,400,000 -80,000 Amoco 23,600,000 -8,300 * DuPont 15,200,000 -29,961 Motorola 15,100,000 +9,600 * Citicorp 9,600,000 -15,700 * exceptions to the trend # AT&T layed off 40,000 people shortly after this accounting |
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| | Welfare Reform Academy |
| | The Welfare Reform Academy is an educational institution designed to help state and local officials, private social service providers, and other interested parties understand best practices in dealing with poverty and child welfare issues. | | | Transcript of interview with Douglas J. Besharov on welfare reform. | | | The Welfare Reform Academy is a project of the University of Maryland School of Public Policy. |
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| | Welfare state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | A second criticism of the welfare state is that it results in high taxes. | | | It should be noted that welfare expenditure refers only to expenditure by the state, and does not encompass other forms of welfare provision (such as occupational welfare). | | | The English term "welfare state" is believed to have been coined by Archbishop William Temple during the Second World War, contrasting wartime Britain with the "warfare state" of Nazi Germany. |
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| | Corporate Welfare Headquarters Corporate Welfare Shame Page |
| | Waste of the West tells you all about the corporate welfare ranchers who take assets that belong to taxpayers. | | | Janice Shields brilliantly describes corporate welfare's role in foreign policy | | | Amid Huge Deficits, Congress Still Spending on Welfare Handouts to Timber Corporations |
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| | Welfare |
| | A fact sheet about the BC government's policy on the welfare appeal process. | | | A fact sheet (PDF) on the second step in the process to appeal a decision about a welfare benefit. | | | A fact sheet (PDF) on the first step in the process to appeal a decision about a welfare benefit. |
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| | Welfare trap - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In short, the welfare trap is an example of a perverse incentive - although intended to reduce unemployment and poverty, it creates a situation whereby the individual has an incentive to avoid raising his own productivity due to its adverse effect on net income after benefits and taxes. | | | An example of how the welfare trap works is as follows: A person on welfare finds a part time job that will pay her a minimum wage of five dollars per hour, eight hours per week. | | | The welfare trap is a name for the phenomenon by which taxation and welfare systems jointly contribute to keep people on social insurance. |
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| | Welfare Reform and the General Welfare |
| | The Senate bill was a modified version of a bill introduced by Senator Robert Dole (R-Kansas) which proposed to end welfare as an outright entitlement and is aimed at giving states "increased flexibility" to: | | | The passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act sets the stage for ongoing reconstruction of welfare systems on a state-by-state basis. | | | ISCV has also organized a Neighborhood Work Experience Program in Philadelphia--what is now called the Community Conservation Corps--that offers hard-to-employ welfare recipients with jobs in community organizations to gain the experience needed to enter the workforce. |
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| | UNISON the public service union - UNISON Welfare |
| | Members can, of course, seek help from UNISON Welfare if there is evidence of financial difficulty or an underlying problem which originated before the onset of the dispute. | | | This policy document puts into context the criteria to be used for the assessment of applications to UNISON Welfare for financial assistance. | | | (24/11/05) UNISON Welfare has teamed up with npower to promote their Savings for Life programme, providing free energy efficiency measures, to UNISON members. |
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| | Talk:Welfare state - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Many right-wing regimes have developed welfare states - there are two examples much in the global news in recent months, and a major example in Europe in the mid 20th century that had global military repercussions. | | | In order to have a stable welfare state, you need money to provide for the welfare services, which is taken from citizens in the form of taxes. | | | Heavily biased in favour of the welfare state. |
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| | VDARE.com: A Progressive Indictment: Immigration Policy and Corporate Welfare, by Randall Burns |
| | Corporate Welfare as defined by Ralph Nader involves use of a public asset for private purposes"a program is considered Corporate Welfare if its public cost outweighs its public benefits. | | | A classic example of Corporate Welfare: allowing broadcasting networks and corporations to use the airwaves without paying the fair market value that could be obtained at public auction. | | | Corporate Welfare practices are typically defended politically by wealthy interests. |
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| | BRIA(14:3) Welfare, How Welfare Began, History of, Reform, Welfare to Work, Europe, Sweden, Welfare in Europe |
| | Welfare should be a state government responsibility so that each of the 50 states will be free to design its own qualifications and levels of support. | | | Welfare should be a national government responsibility so that needy single mothers of dependent children, elderly, and disabled persons in every part of the country can get support when they meet certain qualifications. | | | Welfare reformers argued that the state pensions would also prevent juvenile delinquency since mothers would be able to supervise their children full-time. |
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| | The Welfare State |
| | For example, Wilensky's work on welfare spending shows that the main determinants are the age of the system and the structure of the population. | | | In addition to federal and state activity, there are extensive private, mutualist and corporate interests in welfare provision. | | | Less clear, but probably even more important, is the general concern to ensure that public expenditure on welfare is directly compatible with the need for economic development and growth. |
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| | American Public Human Services Association |
| | Welfare reform conferees release a preliminary outline of a compromise bill that will be included in budget reconciliation. | | | The Senate passes its welfare reform bill by a vote of 74 to 24. | | | He says that an acceptable welfare reform bill must include more funding for child care, health coverage for low-income families, requirements for state funding, and additional funding during times of economic downturn or population growth. |
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| | Welfare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Welfare (financial aid), financial assistance paid by the government | | | Welfare economics, in economics, associated with material benefit or preferred outcomes; see also social welfare function | | | Social welfare, in social policy, refers to the range of services intended to meet people's needs |
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| | The Welfare State |
| | The United States is sometimes described as a ‘liberal' welfare regime, in the sense that it represents individualism, laissez-faire, residualism and a punitive view of poverty. | | | The "welfare state" usually refers to an ideal model of provision, where the state accepts responsibility for the provision of comprehensive and universal welfare for its citizens. | | | Social insurance, which covers the costs of health, some social care and much of the income maintenance system, is managed by a system of independent funds. |
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