In this article, Scott Santens describes our current welfare system across the entire socioeconomic spectrum, and stresses the need for an improved safety net that exists as a basic income floor everyone can count on and no one can fall beneath.

Scott Santens, “Breaking Down Without a Spare – America’s lopsided welfare system of counterproductive public assistance“, Medium, 13 October 2014.

Breaking down without a spare -Photo by Jeremy Brooks — Flickr, via Medium.com

Breaking down without a spare -Photo by Jeremy Brooks — Flickr, via Medium.com