In Our Hands : A Plan to Replace the Welfare State.
Murray, Charles.
In Our Hands : A Plan to Replace the Welfare State. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (152 pages)
In Our Hands -- Contents -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- GROUND RULES -- PREFACE TO THE 2016 EDITION -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. FRAMEWORK -- 1. THE PLAN -- 2. BASIC FINANCES -- PART II. IMMEDIATE EFFECTS -- 3. HEALTH CARE -- 4. RETIREMENT -- 5. POVERTY -- 6. THE UNDERCLASS -- 7. WORK DISINCENTIVES -- PART III. THE LARGER PURPOSE -- 8. THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS IN ADVANCED SOCIETIES -- 9. WORK -- 10. FAMILY -- 11. COMMUNITY -- 12. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- APPENDIXES -- A. THE PROGRAMS TO BE ELIMINATED -- B. THE UBI'S COST COMPARED WITH THE COST OF THE CURRENT SYSTEM -- C. PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS ABOUT POLITICAL FEASIBILITY AND TRANSITION ISSUES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NOTES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
Imagine if the United States were to scrap all forms of existing welfare and give every American age twenty-one and older 10,000 a year for life. This is the Plan, a radical new approach to social policy that defies any partisan label. First laid out by Murray a decade ago, the updated edition reflects economic developments since that time.
9781442260726
Negative income tax - United States.
Electronic books.
HN65 -- .M877 2016eb
361.6/80973
In Our Hands : A Plan to Replace the Welfare State. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (152 pages)
In Our Hands -- Contents -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- GROUND RULES -- PREFACE TO THE 2016 EDITION -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. FRAMEWORK -- 1. THE PLAN -- 2. BASIC FINANCES -- PART II. IMMEDIATE EFFECTS -- 3. HEALTH CARE -- 4. RETIREMENT -- 5. POVERTY -- 6. THE UNDERCLASS -- 7. WORK DISINCENTIVES -- PART III. THE LARGER PURPOSE -- 8. THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS IN ADVANCED SOCIETIES -- 9. WORK -- 10. FAMILY -- 11. COMMUNITY -- 12. CONCLUSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- APPENDIXES -- A. THE PROGRAMS TO BE ELIMINATED -- B. THE UBI'S COST COMPARED WITH THE COST OF THE CURRENT SYSTEM -- C. PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS ABOUT POLITICAL FEASIBILITY AND TRANSITION ISSUES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NOTES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR.
Imagine if the United States were to scrap all forms of existing welfare and give every American age twenty-one and older 10,000 a year for life. This is the Plan, a radical new approach to social policy that defies any partisan label. First laid out by Murray a decade ago, the updated edition reflects economic developments since that time.
9781442260726
Negative income tax - United States.
Electronic books.
HN65 -- .M877 2016eb
361.6/80973