AUDIO: Paul Flahive, “The Source: Calls To Eliminate Social Welfare And Simply Cut A Check”
Welfare Exit Sign
Paul Flahive, “The Source: Calls To Eliminate Social Welfare And Simply Cut A Check”, Texas Public Radio, 2014 November 13
Judith S. Willis. “Response to Interim Report: Review of Australia’s Welfare System.”
SUMMARY: Changes to Australia’s income support system over time have resulted in unintended complexities, inconsistencies and disincentives for some people to work. Achieving a simpler and sustainable income support system should involve a simpler architecture, a fair rate structure, a common approach to adjusting payments, a new approach to support for families with children and young people, effective rent assistance, and rewards for work and targeting assistance to need. The paper argues that a preferred alternative for achieving these goals would be Basic Income.
Judith S. Willis. “Response to Interim Report: Review of Australia’s Welfare System.” Australian Government, Department of Social Services, August 2014
Don Arthur, “Why can’t we have a simple welfare system?”
The author outlines the technical and political challenges in regards to enacting a basic income.
Don Arthur, “Why can’t we have a simple welfare system?”, Australian Review of Public Affairs, 2014 September
Scott Santens, "Breaking Down Without a Spare – America’s lopsided welfare system of counterproductive public assistance"
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
Chris Ladd, “How to End the Welfare State”
Chris Ladd, “How to End the Welfare State” GOPLifer. November 17, 2013.