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Why Does It Matter Where I Live? Welfare Reform, Equal Protection, And The Maryland Constitution, Karen Czapanskiy
Why Does It Matter Where I Live? Welfare Reform, Equal Protection, And The Maryland Constitution, Karen Czapanskiy
Karen Czapanskiy
A key feature of welfare reform in 1996 was the replacement of a national entitlement to a minimum economic provision for each poor family by a system under which states enjoy considerable flexibility in deciding whether and under what terms to provide for families in poverty. Some states devolved that authority further down the chain to local or private organizations. In Maryland, the state neither devolved authority to local jurisdictions nor retained it at the state level. Instead, the state placed a large measure of authority for program design and implementation in the hands of state officials whose offices are …
Is There A Progresssive Alternative To Conservative Welfare Reform?, Philip L. Harvey
Is There A Progresssive Alternative To Conservative Welfare Reform?, Philip L. Harvey
Philip L. Harvey
Progressive scholars have been strongly critical of conservative trends in the design and administration of public assistance programs in market societies, but it is far from clear what they would propose instead. Believing that it takes something to replace something, this article assess two different progressive strategies for eliminating poverty and promoting individual freedom that could serve as replacements for existing public assistance regimes. The first proposal is that all members of society be guaranteed an unconditional basic income without imposing any work requirements in exchange for the benefit. Such a benefit could be provided either in the form of …