Questions tagged [social-welfare]
Questions relating to government support which enables people to have a basic standard of living. Social Security programs would fall into this category
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In Marxist view: does liberal democracy increase alienation of workers?
In Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844 Marx writes:
First, that the work is external to the worker, that it is not part of
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Is the Alternative Payment Arrangements, Managed Payment To Landlord supposed to be a way to garnish a claimants benefits without consent?
It is in the news that someone died and was not found for years. She was not found when the rent stopped being paid because of the Alternative Payment Arrangements, Managed Payment To Landlord scheme:...
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What are possible explanations for why Democratic states appear to have higher homeless rates per capita than Republican states?
The principal argument I see regarding homelessness in blue areas is that cities draw a larger homeless population than rural areas which is objectively true. However, from the evidence I have found, ...
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Did classic liberals believe in inheritance taxation and in welfare?
A friend of mine was talking to me about economics and he said that he's a right-wing and believes in a system of welfare, where people must have basic conditions (health, education and security) to ...
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Does any country consider housing and food a right?
Are there any countries that have formally codified in their law books that access to housing and food is an inherent right?
In other words, safety from violence is seen as something unconditional to ...
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What is the rational behind the UK government offering help paying childcare for 2-year-olds only to non-working parents?
Source: https://www.gov.uk/help-with-childcare-costs/free-childcare-2-year-olds?step-by-step-nav=f237ec8e-e82c-4ffa-8fba-2a88a739783b
It seems that you can claim childcare benefits from the UK ...
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Clarification of the meaning of 'universal claims' vs 'particular individual claims' in Social Policy
I am studying Social Policy in the UK, and I am unsure of the meaning of a question which I have been set: 'How should Social Policy respond to particular individual claims whilst addressing universal ...
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Do any cities formalize preferential homeless services to "locals"?
Homelessness is a pervasive problem in many places but seems especially concentrated in some bigger cities.
Given that many cities struggle with providing support when the problem becomes acute, do ...
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Has there ever been a socialist economy where production was controlled democratically by workers directly without Capitalists or auth-left parties?
What would essentially be democratic socialism. where the means of production are owned by workers unlike in the soviet union where workers' councils only had nominal power and were driven by the ...
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Was UK National Insurance meant to cover all welfare payments from an earmarked fund?
In the UK, National Insurance was introduced as a means of paying for health, welfare and pensions. The original 1911 act created a fund that was paid into by workers, employers and the Treasury and ...
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How can a welfare state with high taxes survive in the face of an aging population?
I'm thinking of countries with economic and social policies like Germany. We can easily observe that in most developed countries, the birth rates are dipping (surprisingly). To my understanding, it is ...
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Why are new mothers apparently excluded from receiving the 2021 monthly "Advance Child Tax Credit Payments" if they filed taxes last year?
According to this Stack Exchange post, it appears that one cannot get the 2021 monthly "Advance Child Tax Credit Payments" for a child born or adopted in 2021 if they also filed taxes last ...
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Why isn't there more public housing in the United States?
According to my research, there are 139 million homes in the United States, and 1.3 million are owned by public housing authorities. It seems to me that more public housing could be possible solution ...
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What motivates left-wing and right-wing attitudes toward means-tested versus universal social programs?
A means-tested social program is one that uses some economic factor, often income, to screen applicants. One would think it would be a highly unattractive view for conservatives, considering that it ...
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How/why was the Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation set at a flat $600/week?
A major provision of the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) was to give a $600/week payment (known as Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation or FPUC) to anyone ...
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What proportion of unemployment benefit spending actually goes to the unemployed?
One of the arguments for Universal Basic Income (UBI) is that it would be more efficient; targeted benefits require a gatekeeper bureaucracy to decide eligibility, detect cheats, start and stop ...
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How can European states have a sustainable retirement system since deteriorating health is associated with the increasing retirement age [closed]
As far as I know, especially across Europe, the retirement age is increasing due to low birth rates and population ageing, the current pension system being unsustainable in this situation.
But this ...
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Is the US a welfare state?
Is the US considered a welfare state? If so, where would it be classified using the Esping-Andersen's welfare classification?
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Yang's UBI Plan: Does it Differ From Charles Murray's?
Noted social scientist Charles Murray has long advocated for a UBI based upon a much earlier version proposed by noted supply-sider Milton Friedman of the Chicago-based economists.
The noted ...
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Why is there a hard limit to the total length of time one can receive TANF benefits in one’s lifetime?
The U.S. TANF welfare programme (unlike its predecessor, AFDC, which it replaced in 1997) has a hard five-year limit on the total length of time in one’s lifetime that one can receive benefits (and a ...
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Why is there no "tax relief program" (for real estate property in many US states) for the poor like they have for the people over 65?
The fact that we help the poor and homeless with shelter, foodstamps.. etc, but at the same time we take away the (paid off) houses owned by people who live on an equally poor budget (under the ...
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What percentage of asylum seekers who entered the EU during the 2015 refugee crisis are no longer receiving welfare?
At the height of the 2015 refugee crisis in Europe there have been numerous arguments over the economic utility of arriving asylum seekers. On one hand of the spectrum, representatives of the left ...
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Failure of Ujjwala Scheme (LPG subsidies) in India
Despite massive publicity, the Government of India's much-hyped Ujjwala scheme which had promised to wean away rural women from using wood as fuel in the kitchens has failed big time.
What are the ...
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What prevents a country from increasing its welfare budget in a vicious cycle as the percentage of citizens on government assistance approaches 50+%?
Over the past 30 years, the percentage of US citizens on some form of government assistance has been steadily increasing:
This corresponds to a decrease in the labor participation rate over the same ...
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Is Chomsky's "standard technique of privatization" historically accurate?
Noam Chomsky said once in lecture:
Social Security is actually in pretty good shape despite what everybody screams about. But if you can defund it, it won't be in good shape. And there is a ...
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The ethics on darwinism and social darwinism
Has someone written a monograph on ethics related to social darwinism and darwinism?
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Does the populist rise in Europe prove that intra-party democracy is not working?
Each party (including German and Nordic social democratic parties) has its own inner democratic election system which elects the party leaders and which proposes and changes the program of the party. ...
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Do immigrants to the US use up more welfare?
Trump administration proposes limiting green cards for those who took public benefits
Do immigrants use up more welfare? This data says there is no correlation.
Where can I find a scatter plot of ...
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Why do European cities have so many homeless and beggars despite its high-tax welfare system?
Any European cities I have ever visited had homeless or beggars on the street. Or these people may not necessarily be homeless but it is clear enough that they are extremely poor and need help from ...
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Model of interactions between government and society (circular dependency)
I have a question concerning how to think about or how it is that people/governments approach improving society at a large scale. I've attached a diagram showing my thinking:
As you can see there is ...
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Where can I find a scatter plot of welfare spending vs. immigrant rate?
Where can I find a scatter plot of welfare spending (per capita, % of spending, or % of GDP) vs. immigrant rate (per capita, or % of population)? By state or by country would be fine. I tried to ...
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Why don't people who are upset about economic inequality donate to the poor?
The middle-class American often moans about economic inequality, but there's another aspect to the same issue as well: yes, the middle-class American makes far less than Donald Trump or Bill Gates, ...
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Who are the homeless
I would like to know more about the background the homeless populations in America’s cities. These narratives should drive public policy but after many searches over the past year, I still consider ...
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Why is a big country less suitable for high-tax, high-welfare system?
Back when the US presidential election, I frequently heard the US is not suitable for the high-tax, large-welfare system like in Scandinavia. This is especially common among leftists, mostly Hillary ...
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Why is the intellectual consensus in the UK to prefer state-controlled philanthropy?
If philanthropy is the application of a moral code to redistributive monetary expenditure, a large proportion of the UK government spending is philanthropic in nature.
Ethical responsibility is thus ...
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People receiving federal assistance in the US
I'm trying to resolve a tension between two claims about people receiving various forms of federal assistance in the US. I'll illustrate the claims with a couple of links:
On the one hand, it appears ...
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US political parties that support EU style social welfare spending?
Are there any political parties or groups in the United States that openly support making the U.S. more like EU countries by:
Addressing social welfare and safety net needs by increasing federal non-...
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What is the real cost of unconditional basic income for germany compared to social spending
I would like to know if the idea of a basic income of 1000€ per person each month is more costly than the system we currently have in Germany and how much it would differ presumably.
In Germany we ...
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Why there is so much neglect and even the hate of socialism/communism as the postcapitalism? [closed]
Marxism teaches that the development of technology leads to the new forms of social and economic orders. There have been already primitive communism, slavery, feudalism and now the capitalism is the ...
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"Debunking Scandinavian Envy"
On Greg Mankiw's blog, he posted the following entry, titled "Debunking Scandinavian Envy".
http://gregmankiw.blogspot.com/2016/08/debunking-scandinavia-envy.html
Fact of the day: "Danish-...
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Can providing a basic income to a subset of poor citizens benefit the government politically?
I am looking for empirical evidence that making direct monetary payments to targeted groups of deprived people - say paying all families living in a certain poor district fifty dollars every month, ...
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Why aren't people on Medicaid in the US punished for poor health habits?
With my insurance, I have to pay extra because I smoke.
However in my line of work I see people who are on Medicaid and don't pay a dime for their coverage are constantly abusing drugs, but they are ...
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Why did Labour abstain rather than oppose the Welfare Bill from the conservative government?
In the United Kingdom, a government welfare bill was supported by the Conservative party, opposed by the Scottish National Party, the Liberal Democrats, and others, while the Labour Party, forming the ...
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But without government, who will take care of the poor? [closed]
Without government, who will take care of the poor? One government defines poverty as $11,888/yr for an individual.
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What was the rationale behind cutting SNAP payments? when will it increase again?
SNAP decreased quite a bit nation wide. What was the rational behind cutting it? When will it increase again? What is the forecasted funding for the next 5 years of SNAP?
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What percentage of people receive SNAP benefits for extended periods of time?
The FARRM bills major expenditure, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), supports over 40 million people.
What percentage of people have received SNAP benefits for more than 5/10/20/...
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How much did the US spend on each means-tested program during the last 5 years?
The Weekly Standard had an article that made the following claims:
The federal government has spent a total $3.7 trillion on approximately 80 different means-tested poverty and welfare programs. ...
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What estimates are there on the level of fraud in the Social Security Disability Insurance program?
Steve Kroft had an expose on the federal Social Security Disability Insurance program.
The hearing involves the federal disability insurance program, which could become the first government benefits ...
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Does the percentage of single mothers correlate with high welfare states?
CATO released their Work Versus Welfare Trade-off 2013 study. Table 4 shows that in 8 states, welfare pays the equivalent of an average salary in those states in cash/in-kind goods.
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What is the purpose of food stamps, WIC, SNAP, and other related federal programs?
It seems to me that one of the necessary functions required by every organism in order to survive, is to have the means of providing food for itself and its offspring. What was the initial reasoning ...
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