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Long Overdue: The Single Guaranteed Minimum Income Program, David Allen Larson
Long Overdue: The Single Guaranteed Minimum Income Program, David Allen Larson
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This article provides an overview of income support programs in the United States. The article first examines proposals for a guaranteed income. This initial examination consists of four separate sections. It begins with a summary of negative income tax plans. Second, it discusses legislation introduced in the United States Congress. Third, current guaranteed income proposals are examined. Finally, it concludes with a brief examination of social experiments conducted in several communities. Because no proposal for a comprehensive guaranteed income program has been adopted, this article next discusses the income maintenance programs including a short description and selected statistical information.
An Offer She Can’T Refuse: When Fundamental Rights And Conditions On Government Benefits Collide, Marie Failinger
An Offer She Can’T Refuse: When Fundamental Rights And Conditions On Government Benefits Collide, Marie Failinger
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This article criticizes the Maher/Harris conditions doctrine on two levels. At the first level, it suggests that the Maher/Harris doctrine cannot justify the Court’s decisions to uphold government withdrawals of funding from rights-exercises. At the second level, after exposing and contrasting the definitional presuppositions of the Court in Maher and Harris with previous cases, the article suggests that the Maher/Harris doctrine is a failure because it uses utterly inadequate rights theory to resolve emerging issues of conflicting human need and conscience, issues which are mediated by government action. The author creates a space for a discussion of a new framework …