The Fiscalization of Social Policy How Taxpayers Trumped Children in the Fight Against Child Poverty
The Fiscalization of Social Policy How Taxpayers Trumped Children in the Fight Against Child Poverty
- ISBN 13:
9780190841300
- ISBN 10:
0190841303
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 06/19/2018
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary
In The Fiscalization of Social Policy, Joshua 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, child US 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.