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Welfare Reform And The Cooperative Federalism Of America's Public Income Transfer Programs, Stephen D. Sugarman
Welfare Reform And The Cooperative Federalism Of America's Public Income Transfer Programs, Stephen D. Sugarman
Stephen D Sugarman
In 1968, in its first important welfare law decision, the United States Supreme Court used the phrase "cooperative federalism" to describe Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), that part of our public income transfer system generally known as "welfare." The same label can also be applied to the other major income transfer programs in which the federal government participates-social security, food stamps, unemployment compensation, and supplemental security income (commonly called "SSI"). However, the terms of cooperation are different in each of these programs with national and state governments sharing power and responsibility for funding, benefit levels, conditions of eligibility, …
A First Appraisal Of Serrano
Stephen D Sugarman
A host of legal and related issues have been posed by the recent decision in Serrano v. Priest; a selective scanning of these issues, in an attempt to ascertain their importance and likely impact, is now necessary. In Serrano the Supreme Court of California held that to the extent existing differences in spending among school districts are caused by differences in wealth, the present scheme for financing public schools in California violates federal and state equal protection guarantees. The court further held that although school finance mechanisms may differ along many dimensions, they must respect one proscription: the quality of …