Fiscal Measures for Poverty Alleviation in the United States, Page 87ILO pub-WEP pub. Research report on guaranteed income programmes to alleviate poverty in the USA - presents a description of the number and type of persons in the low income bracket, as well as an evaluation of the major fiscal policy and public expenditure measures taken to help them, discusses drawbacks to the current tax system as well as proposals for tax reform and forms part of a WEP research programme. Graphs, references ad statistical tables. |
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Chapter | 2 |
Criticisms and alternatives | 9 |
b The need for a relative poverty standard | 16 |
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50 per cent 93rd US Congress absolute poverty AFDC amount assistance programmes average Brookings Institution CALIFORNIA/SANTA CRUZ cash assistance cash transfer programmes Census Congressional Budget Office CRUZ The University dependent children dollars earned income Education and Welfare effects eligibility estimates Families Under Alternative family heads family of four food stamp Government guaranteed minimum income in-kind transfers income groups income maintenance programmes income transfer increase Joint Economic Committee medicaid medicare million money income negative income tax non-aged non-Whites number of persons OECD official poverty line Option payroll tax percentage post-transfer poverty poverty alleviation poverty line income poverty population poverty reduction poverty standard Poverty Status public assistance public cash transfers public transfers Public Welfare Study recipients reform relative poverty Security for Americans social insurance Social Security Administration social welfare expenditures Status of Families Supplemental Security Income tax rate total number unemployed unemployment insurance United wages Washington workers
