What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality Paperback - 2002 - 1st Edition
by Benjamin I. Page; James R. Simmons
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In the mid-1990s, economist Barry Bluestone wrote of an onrushing "inequality express."
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Can governments do anything right? Can they do anything at all about the problems of poverty and inequality? Despite the recent boom in the U.S. economy, many millions of Americans have been left behind. Poverty rates remain higher than in most other industrialized countries. Income inequality has increased sharply. Yet we are sometimes told that government cannot or should not do anything about it: either these problems are hopeless, or government action is inevitably wasteful and inefficient, or globalization has made governments impotent.
What Government Can Do argues, on the contrary, that federal, state, and local governments can and should do a great deal. Benjamin I. Page and James R. Simmons detail what programs have worked and how they can be improved, while introducing the general reader to the fundamentals of social insurance programs such as Social Security and Medicaid, tax structures, minimum wage laws, educational programs, and the concept of "basic needs." Through their discussions of high-profile campaign plans, proposals, successes, and failures, they have written a readable, optimistic, and clear-headed book on government and poverty. And they find that, contrary to popular belief, government policies already do, in fact, help alleviate poverty and economic inequality. Often these policies work far more effectively and efficiently than people realize, and in ways that enhance freedom rather than infringe on it. At the same time, Page and Simmons show how even more could be-and should be-accomplished. The authors advocate many sweeping policy changes while acknowledging political obstacles (such as the power of money and organized interests in American politics) that may stand in the way. Yet even those who disagree with their recommendations will come away with a deepened understanding of how social and economic policies actually work. Exploring ideas often ignored in Beltway political discourse, What Government Can Do challenges all Americans to raise the level of public debate and improve our public policies.Details
- Title What Government Can Do: Dealing with Poverty and Inequality
- Author Benjamin I. Page; James R. Simmons
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 409
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date 2002-04-15
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780226644820 / 0226644820
- Weight 1.23 lbs (0.56 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 5.86 x 0.93 in (22.81 x 14.88 x 2.36 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00008807
- Dewey Decimal Code 362.580
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