Welfare Doesn't Work: The Promises of Basic Income for a Failed American Safety Net (Exploring the Basic Income Guarantee)

Contents
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1: A Tale of Two Ideas
	A Very Brief History of Welfare in Early Europe
	American Bootstraps
	The Civil Rights Movement
	Race and Welfare
	The Conservative Revolution
	Where We Stand Today
	References
Chapter 2: From Welfare to Work (In Theory)
	The Role of Minority Labor
	Mechanization and Globalization
	Welfare “Reform”: Work Requirements, Sanctions, and Other Bad Ideas
	Workers with Disabilities
	Basic Income and Work
	References
Chapter 3: Perverse Incentives
	Paternalism and Social Policy
		Are Most Welfare Recipients Black, Latinx, or Immigrants?
		Do Welfare Recipients Work?
		Do Welfare Recipients Use More Drugs?
		Do Welfare Recipients Misuse Their Funds?
		Do Welfare Recipients Remain on Assistance Long Term?
		Do Recipients Have Additional Children So They Can Get More Welfare?
	Welfare and Behavioral Incentives
	Poverty and Human Behavior
	A Cure for Bad Choices?
	Basic Income and Behavior
	References
Chapter 4: Assets and Household Stability
	Wealth Inequality in America
	Do the Poor Lack Financial Literacy?
		The Policy Landscape
		Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
		Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program/Food Stamps
		Medicaid
		Supplemental Security Income
	Implications of Asset Limits
		Program Participation
		Asset Holdings and Financial Behaviors
		Labor Market Outcomes
		Vehicle Ownership
		Administrative Costs
	Basic Income and Assets
	References
Chapter 5: The Lives of Low-Income Women
	A Woman’s Place
	Aid to [Virtuous Women with] Dependent Children
	Morality and Virtue
	Feminization of Poverty
	Basic-Income Outcomes for Women
	References
Chapter 6: A Two-Tiered Welfare State
	Welfare Expenditures by Social Class
	Bureaucratic Hurdles and Administrative Cost
	Morality and Class
	Empathy and Race
	Welfare and Democracy
	Equality Through a Basic Income
	References
Chapter 7: The Most Vulnerable
	A History of Child Welfare in America
	Signs of Progress
	A Hard Right Turn
	Welfare Outcomes for Children
	Basic Income Outcomes for Children
	References
Chapter 8: The Alternative
	How Would a Basic Income Work?
	Would the Poor Be Worse Off?
	What Would People Do with a Basic Income?
	References
Index