Boosting paychecks [electronic resource] : the politics of supporting America's working poor

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서명/저자사항	Boosting paychecks [electronic resource]: the politics of supporting America's working poor / Daniel P. Gitterman.
개인저자	Gitterman, Daniel Paul.
발행사항	Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, c2010.
형태사항	1 online resource (xi, 180 p.) : ill.
기타형태 저록	Print version: Gitterman, Daniel Paul. Boosting paychecks. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, c2010 9780815703082
ISBN	9780815704584 (electronic bk.) 0815704585 (electronic bk.)
서지주기	Includes bibliographical references (p. 163-174) and index.
내용주기	Boosting paychecks in America -- The political origins of federal taxes on individual income -- The political origins of the federal minimum wage -- Reagan, Bush, and a new era in the politics of boosting paychecks -- Clinton and the fight over tax relief for the working poor or the middle class -- George W. Bush and the return of across-the-board tax relief -- Toward a new bargain? -- The past and future politics of boosting paychecks.
요약	When most people think of policies designed to help the poor, welfare is the first program that comes to mind. Traditionally welfare has served individuals who do not work--hence much of the stigma that some attach to the program. An equally important strand of American social policy, however, is meant to support low-wage workers and their families. In Boosting Paychecks, Daniel Gitterman illuminates this often neglected part ofthe American safety net. Gitterman focuses on two sets of policy instruments that have been used to aid the working poor since the early twentieth century: the federal ta.
일반주제명	Working poor --Government policy --United States. Working poor --Taxation --United States. Minimum wage --United States. Social Science. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS --Labor. POLITICAL SCIENCE --Labor & Industrial Relations.
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