Taxing the Poor
Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged
This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption. Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O'Brien argue that these policies contribute in unrecognized ways to poverty-related problems like obesity, early mortality, the high school dropout rates, teen pregnancy, and crime. They show how, decades before California's passage of Proposition 13, many southern states implemented legislation that makes it almost impossible to raise property or corporate taxes, a pattern now grow…
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: O'Brien, Rourke
- ISBN: 978-0-520-94893-8
- EAN: 9780520948938
- Produktnummer: 21595859
- Verlag: University of California Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
- Seitenangabe: 264 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'588 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
- Reihenbandnummer: 7
Über den Autor
Katherine S. Newman is James B. Knapp Dean of the Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Among her many books are Falling From Grace, No Shame in My Game, Rampage and The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America. Rourke L. O'Brien is a graduate student in sociology and social policy at Princeton University and a non-resident fellow of the New America Foundation.
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