The Race Among the States in Welfare Benefits: A Comment

Frances Fox Piven

Publius: The Journal of Federalism, vol. 28, issue 3, 39-43

Abstract: One error in research on the welfare-magnet thesis is its focus on the poor rather than on the well-endowed and mobile economic actors who influence state policymakers. Another error is the assumption that poor people are mobile participants in the game of locational advantage. Yet, unlike well-endowed economic actors who move funds and goods, the poor must move themselves and their own bodies, rather than resources. Hence, it is unlikely that poor people are playing much of a role in any race to the bottom in welfare policymaking. Copyright , Oxford University Press.

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