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Welfare Spending and Poverty: Cutting Back Produces More Poverty, Not Less

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The “New Consensus” on welfare expresses the idea that the major problem in social welfare is dependency, not poverty Much of the evidence for this perspective has come from trend line data indicating that over time poverty did not evaporate in the face of increases in social welfare spending Using various measures of the “dependent” poor, the empirical analysis presented suggests that reducing welfare expenditures relative to need does not produce less poverty and dependency

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  • Sanford F. Schram, 1991. "Welfare Spending and Poverty: Cutting Back Produces More Poverty, Not Less," American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 50(2), pages 129-141, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ajecsc:v:50:y:1991:i:2:p:129-141
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1991.tb03318.x
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    1. Michael Novak, 1987. "The New Consensus on Family and Welfare," Books, American Enterprise Institute, number 919085, September.
    2. Moffitt, Robert, 1990. "Has State Redistribution Policy Grown More Conservative?," National Tax Journal, National Tax Association;National Tax Journal, vol. 43(2), pages 123-142, June.
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