The Most Vulnerable

Leah Hamilton ()
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Leah Hamilton: Appalachian State University

Chapter Chapter 7 in Welfare Doesn't Work, 2020, pp 107-126 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The history of American child welfare policy includes a focus on removing children from poor parents, rather than supporting economically vulnerable families, a process which continues today. Increasingly stringent welfare eligibility criteria and the exclusion of millions of families from assistance has been directly linked with increased child poverty, child abuse, and foster care placements in the United States. The economic cost of growing childhood poverty, via increased crime, poorer health outcomes, and decreased economic productivity, is currently estimated at $1.03 trillion per year. Having no control over their parents’ actions, children are the ultimate losers in the government’s attempts to shape parental behavior. Conversely, improvements in child health, nutrition, well-being, and educational outcomes are a consistent finding of the various basic income experiments.

Keywords: Children; Child welfare; Child poverty; Basic income (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-37121-0_7

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