/tags/welfare/ Recent bookmarks tagged #welfare Mon, 02 Nov 2026 08:24:52 +0000 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/magazine/switzerlands-proposal-to-pay-people-for-being-alive.html?hp&pagewanted=all&_r=0 There are strong arguments against minimum or basic incomes, too. Cost is one. Creating a massive disincentive to work is another. But some experts said the effect might be smaller than you would think. A basic income might be enough to live on, but not enough to live very well on. Such a program would be designed to end poverty without creating a nation of layabouts. The Mincome experiment offers some backup for that argument, too.“For a lot of economists, the issue was that you would disincentivize work,” said Wayne Simpson, a Canadian economist who has studied Mincome. “The evidence showed that it was not nearly as bad as some of the literature had suggested.”<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #imported:pinboard #income #poverty #to:fb #welfare</p> Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:55:59 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:32090 imported:pinboard income poverty to:fb welfare http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/17/magazine/switzerlands-proposal-to-pay-people-for-being-alive.html?_r=0&hp=&pagewanted=all There are strong arguments against minimum or basic incomes, too. Cost is one. Creating a massive disincentive to work is another. But some experts said the effect might be smaller than you would think. A basic income might be enough to live on, but not enough to live very well on. Such a program would be designed to end poverty without creating a nation of layabouts. The Mincome experiment offers some backup for that argument, too.“For a lot of economists, the issue was that you would disincentivize work,” said Wayne Simpson, a Canadian economist who has studied Mincome. “The evidence showed that it was not nearly as bad as some of the literature had suggested.”<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #income #poverty #to:fb #welfare</p> Wed, 13 Nov 2013 16:55:59 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:24350 income poverty to:fb welfare http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/the-secret-to-finlands-success-with-schools-moms-kids-and-everything/277699/?single_page=true "It seems to me that people in Finland are more secure and less anxious than Americans because there is a threshold below which they won't fall," said Linda Cook, a political scientist at Brown University who has studied European welfare states. "Even if they face unemployment or illness, Finns will have some payments from the state, public health care and education."<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #finland #imported:pinboard #politics #to:fb #welfare</p> Thu, 11 Jul 2013 19:40:57 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:32250 finland imported:pinboard politics to:fb welfare http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/07/the-secret-to-finlands-success-with-schools-moms-kids-and-everything/277699?single_page=true "It seems to me that people in Finland are more secure and less anxious than Americans because there is a threshold below which they won't fall," said Linda Cook, a political scientist at Brown University who has studied European welfare states. "Even if they face unemployment or illness, Finns will have some payments from the state, public health care and education."<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #finland #politics #to:fb #welfare</p> Thu, 11 Jul 2013 19:40:57 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:23892 finland politics to:fb welfare http://tremblethedevil.com/?p=1693 If the War on Drugs didn’t directly precipitate the Welfare State and the destruction of the American black family, why did welfare aid to families spike in lockstep with our prison population right as that War started? Well, if you’re familiar American drug laws, it shouldn’t surprise you that some 90% of those arrested under the Rockefeller Drug Laws in the years after its passage were minorities.<br/> <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #drugs #imported:pinboard #prison #race #racism #warondrugs #welfare</p> Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:36:14 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:20803 drugs imported:pinboard prison race racism warondrugs welfare http://www.dnalounge.com/backstage/log/2009/02.html#13 <p><strong>Tags:</strong> #alcohol #california #dnalounge #jwz #law #welfare</p> Sat, 14 Feb 2009 03:29:06 +0000 linkding-ssg:bookmark:12014 alcohol california dnalounge jwz law welfare