| Title |
The Deserving Poor, the Family, and the U.S. Welfare System
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Demography, June 2015
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| DOI | 10.1007/s13524-015-0395-0 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Robert A Moffitt |
| Abstract |
Contrary to the popular view that the U.S. welfare system has been in a contractionary phase after the expansions of the welfare state in the 1960s, welfare spending resumed steady growth after a pause in the 1970s. However, although aggregate spending is higher than ever, there have been redistributions away from non-elderly and nondisabled families to families with older adults and to families with recipients of disability programs; from non-elderly, nondisabled single-parent families to married-parent families; and from the poorest families to those with higher incomes. These redistributions likely reflect long-standing, and perhaps increasing, conceptualizations by U.S. society of which poor are deserving and which are not. |
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| United States | 14 | 50% |
| Spain | 2 | 7% |
| Germany | 1 | 4% |
| Unknown | 11 | 39% |
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| Members of the public | 23 | 82% |
| Scientists | 4 | 14% |
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| Sweden | 1 | <1% |
| Brazil | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 178 | 97% |
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| Student > Master | 25 | 14% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 20 | 11% |
| Researcher | 15 | 8% |
| Student > Bachelor | 14 | 8% |
| Other | 33 | 18% |
| Unknown | 35 | 19% |
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| Social Sciences | 91 | 49% |
| Economics, Econometrics and Finance | 15 | 8% |
| Psychology | 6 | 3% |
| Business, Management and Accounting | 5 | 3% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 5 | 3% |
| Other | 21 | 11% |
| Unknown | 41 | 22% |
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