During the last decade the idea of a negative income tax (NIT) as the centerpiece program in antipoverty policy has faded politically to near extinction. Even if political support were favorable, I doubt that the NIT is currently a practical antipoverty proposal. Having made this admission, however, I hasten to say that I did not come to bury the negative income tax, but rather to suggest that ...

The beated controversy over "citizen participation," "citizen conuol," and "maximum feasible involvement of the poor," has been waged largely in ( enDS of exacerbated rhetoric and misleading euphemislDS. To encourage a more enlightened dialogue, a typology of citizen participation is offered using examples from three federal social programs: urban renewal. antipoverty, and Model Cities. The typ...

**The substantial econontic growth after Wor7d War II led to the expectation on the part of many thcct coltk the rising Gross National Product poverty wou7d s fecrdily diminish as a serious problem; this has not proved to DP so.” This is the opening statrm~nt in a. recent governmental review of C’tr7iadkn antiporjerty policies. The comment might we77 Jralle been written about postwar expectatio...

Persons who are unemployed for long periods of time in our society constitute a large, complex, ongoing problem, even during times of rleatively high employment. The significance of this problem is supported by the fact that between 1947 and 1962 long-term unemployment had risen 100 percent, while short-term unemployment rose 20 percent. We were also reducing short-term unemployment during this...

The authors examined the effects of antipoverty programs on children's cumulative poverty-related risk and the relationship between cumulative poverty-related risk and child outcomes among low-income families. Samples included 419 children ages 3-10 years in the New Hope program and 759 children ages 2-9 years in the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP), which tested 2 program approaches....

Abstract This paper assesses the extent to which Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)—one of America's largest antipoverty programs—has reached poorest. We compute a novel measure floor income, an estimated income level poorest individuals in society. with and without SNAP benefits included family using 29 years Current Population Survey (CPS) data. correct for underreporting partic...

The publication of Charles Murray’s (1984) book Losing Ground has rekindled interest in the role ofgovernment in promoting economic equality using redistributive tax and expenditure programs. Murray concludes that spending on poverty programs may well have increased the number of poor people and that eliminating many of these programs might be a better antipoverty strategy. These conclusions re...