How Much is Enough?
Author : Jared Bernstein
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 20,75 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Jared Bernstein
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 20,75 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Great Britain. Parliament House of Commons. Treasury Committee
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 2008-12-15
Category : Poverty
ISBN : 9780215525512
Government response to HCP 326, session 2007-08 (ISBN 9780215521293)
Author : Mark K. Sherwood
Publisher :
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 44,45 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Budgets, Personal
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Author : Molly W. Dahl
Publisher :
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 32,40 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Children
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Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Treasury Committee
Publisher : The Stationery Office
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,71 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780215521293
This report examines the impact of the abolition of the 10 pence rate of income tax, considering separately the effects of initial implementation and the effects in the light of the changes to personal allowances announced on 13 May 2008. The losers from the measures as initially implemented were people whose taxable income was small and for whom the loss might be significant when required to manage a personal or household budget at a time of sharply rising prices for many essential goods and services. For the current tax year, in the circumstances which the Chancellor of the Exchequer faced, the option chosen on 13 May of increasing personal allowances, but confining the benefits to basic rate taxpayers, was probably the least bad option, with the benefits of simplicity, transparency and greater incentives to work on the basis that fewer taxpayers face high marginal deduction rates. However, £2 billion of the £2.7 billion committed to that measure is not devoted to compensating losers from the removal of the starting rate of income tax, and is not well-targeted. The Government must learn lessons relating to budgetary processes. The Government should publish a Household Impact Assessment alongside future Budgets and Pre-Budget Reports. There is a pressing need for the Government to compensate the remaining 1.1 million households who lose from the removal of the starting rate of income tax even after the 13 May changes. In the longer-term, reforms should be centred on the greater challenges faced by the Government in combating poverty. The Committee recommends the establishment of a Poverty Commission on a similar basis to the Pensions Commission to examine the public policy challenges relating to poverty.
Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 619 pages
File Size : 26,24 MB
Release : 2019-09-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0309483980
The strengths and abilities children develop from infancy through adolescence are crucial for their physical, emotional, and cognitive growth, which in turn help them to achieve success in school and to become responsible, economically self-sufficient, and healthy adults. Capable, responsible, and healthy adults are clearly the foundation of a well-functioning and prosperous society, yet America's future is not as secure as it could be because millions of American children live in families with incomes below the poverty line. A wealth of evidence suggests that a lack of adequate economic resources for families with children compromises these children's ability to grow and achieve adult success, hurting them and the broader society. A Roadmap to Reducing Child Poverty reviews the research on linkages between child poverty and child well-being, and analyzes the poverty-reducing effects of major assistance programs directed at children and families. This report also provides policy and program recommendations for reducing the number of children living in poverty in the United States by half within 10 years.
Author : Kathryn H. Porter
Publisher :
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 44,84 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Budget
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Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 32,67 MB
Release : 1938
Category :
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Author : Trudi J. Renwick
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,6 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815331728
Addressing the need to recalculate the poverty rate for single parent families, this updated dissertation describes and critiques the methods used by the Census Bureau to conduct the official poverty headcount each year. It then offers a framework for the development of an alternative approach, the Basic Needs Budget, to establish more accurate poverty rates and uses the BNB to statistically analyze the 1996 welfare reform in depth. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 45,43 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Cost and standard of living
ISBN :