Poverty spending and the poverty gap
作者:
Daniel H. Weinberg,
期刊:
Journal of Policy Analysis and Management
(WILEY Available online 1987)
卷期:
Volume 6,
issue 2
页码: 230-241
ISSN:0276-8739
年代: 1987
DOI:10.2307/3324518
出版商: Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractThis paper examines two questions basic to welfare policy: (1) whether the amount of poverty‐related transfers is sufficient to fill the poverty gap, and (2) which families actually get benefits and how much of their income deficit is filled by those benefits. Transfers are sufficient: the post‐Social Security poverty gap is $74 billion while poverty‐related programs total $198 billion. Further, 86% of currentincome‐conditionedbenefits go to the pretransfer poor and 89% of those are used to alleviate poverty (fill the poverty gap). Thus, if a substantial fraction of total Federal and State expenditures on poverty‐related programs could be targeted more toward the poor, the poverty gap can be eliminated. The current programs, however, would have to be changed substantially to achieve the necessary re
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