In Our Hands: A Plan to Replace the Welfare StateAmerica's population is wealthier than any in history. Every year, the American government redistributes more than a trillion dollars of that wealth to provide for retirement, health care, and the alleviation of poverty. We still have millions of people without comfortable retirements, without adequate health care, and living in poverty. Only a government can spend so much money so ineffectually. The solution is to give the money to the people. This is the Plan, a radical new approach to social policy that defies any partisan label. Murray suggests eliminating all welfare transfer programs at the federal, state, and local levels and substituting an annual $10,000 cash grant to everyone age twenty-one or older. In Our Hands describes the financial feasibility of the Plan and its effects on retirement, health care, poverty, marriage and family, work, neighborhoods and civil society. |
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... marriage fall into two categories : effects on the decision to marry , and effects on people after they are married . Effects on the Decision to Marry The broadest effect of the Plan is to make marriage econom- ically easier for low ...
... marriage fall into two categories : effects on the decision to marry , and effects on people after they are married . Effects on the Decision to Marry The broadest effect of the Plan is to make marriage econom- ically easier for low ...
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... marriage easier does not necessarily mean that large numbers of people will choose to marry who do not marry now . So let ... married biological father . At the other extreme is a marriage - is - everything regime in which the biological ...
... marriage easier does not necessarily mean that large numbers of people will choose to marry who do not marry now . So let ... married biological father . At the other extreme is a marriage - is - everything regime in which the biological ...
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... marriage before bearing a man's child . It is hard to think of any other single change that would have as many positive effects on the next generation of children . Effects on Marriage among the Married Whatever happens to the laws ...
... marriage before bearing a man's child . It is hard to think of any other single change that would have as many positive effects on the next generation of children . Effects on Marriage among the Married Whatever happens to the laws ...
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