The Fiscalization of Social Policy
How Taxpayers Trumped Children in the Fight Against Child Poverty
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 12 July 2018
- ISBN 9780190841300
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 236x160x20 mm
- Weight 476 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 7 line drawings 0
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Short description:
The earned income tax credit (EITC) and child tax credit (CTC) are tax credits for low-income families that paradoxically exclude the poorest families. This book challenges the conventional wisdom on American exceptionalism and offers the first and only comparative analysis of the politics on these important anti-poverty tax credits.
MoreLong description:
In 1970, a single mother with two children working full time at the federal minimum wage in the US received no direct cash benefits from the federal government. Today, after a period of austerity, that same mother would receive $7,572 in federal cash benefits. This money does not come from social assistance, family allowances, or other programs we traditionally see as part of the welfare state. Instead, she benefits from the earned income tax credit (EITC) and the child tax credit (CTC)--tax credits for low-income families that have become a major component of American social policy.
In The Fiscalization of Social Policy, Joshua T. McCabe challenges conventional wisdom on American exceptionalism, offering the first and only comparative analysis of the politics of tax credits. Drawing comparisons between similar developments in the UK and Canada, McCabe upends much of what we know about tax credits for low-income families. Rather than attributing these changes to anti-welfare attitudes, mobilization of conservative forces, shifts toward workfare, or racial antagonism, he argues that the growing use of tax credits for social policy was a strategic adaptation to austerity. While all three countries employ the same set of tax credits, US child poverty rates remain highest, as their tax credits paradoxically exclude the poorest families.
A critical examination of social policy over the last fifty years, The Fiscalization of Social Policy shows why the US government hasn't tackled poverty, even while it implements greater tax benefits for the poor.
In sum, comparative welfare state scholars would be wise to pick up a copy of The Fiscalization of Social Policy. McCabe blends a rare mix of thorough historical analysis with sharp insights on how historical events constraint contemporary policymaking decisions. The book is thus not only relevant for researchers of the U.S., UK, or Canada, but for any policy or poverty scholar who wants to think more critically about how past actions shape todays political choices.
Table of Contents:
American Exceptionalism Revisited
The Great Divergence
From the Era of Easy Finance to Permanent Austerity
Canada: Taking Children Off Welfare
The United Kingdom: The Childrens Budget
The United States: Tax Relief for Families
Conclusion
Index
