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...Bryant William Sculos Abstract This article argues that demands and movements for universal basic income (UBI) are important components of a “transitional program,” comprised of transitional demands, suitable for the twenty-first century. Transitional demands do two things: (1) they genuinely...

...Ronald C. Den Otter Abstract This article explains how a legal argument for a constitutional right to a universal basic income (UBI) in the United States could be constructed. My aim is to move the idea of a constitutionally-required UBI from the implausible to the plausible, suggesting...

...Tom Malleson Abstract The belief that people morally deserve the income they acquire in the market is both powerful and deep-rooted. Nevertheless, most political philosophers are skeptical of the idea that market income is morally deserved. There is thus a large and uncomfortable chasm between...

... of welfare policy and income support. Included in this discussion is a postmodern critique of welfare policy. The argument put forth is that welfare rights need to be rethought in a postmodern society. Indeed, rights-based thinking in liberal political philosophy is inadequate. A postmodern welfare policy...

... that defines Sino-globalization has resulted in a worst-of-both amalgam that has taken China from one of the lowest income differentials in the world to one of the highest. The unrest this spawns will eventually erode one of the main sources of China’s globalist appeal: its presumed political stability...

...Margaret Morganroth Gullette Abstract Ageism directed at those in their middle years— middle ageism is being given teeth by midlife downsizing, drops in real income and workforce participation, substandard employment, hiring discrimination, and court decisions that weaken age anti-discrimination...

..., and relies on private attorneys in ways that both limit access and often hurt low-income debtors. © 2020 Caucus for a New Political Science 2020 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 2020, VOL. 42, NO. 3,333-356 httpsdoi.org/l0.l080/07393148.2020.1816729 ARTICLE What Kind of Relief? Consumer Bankruptcy and Private...

.... One that enables a reframed relationship to the climate crisis, income inequality, and creeping authoritarian populism. © 2022 Caucus for a New Political Science 2022 NEW POLITICAL SCIENCE 202~VOL4~ NO. ~ 248-264 httpsdoLorg/l 0.1 080/07393148.2022.2076509 The Critical Pessimism of Theodor Adorno...

... income floor at 133% of the Federal Poverty Level, the legislation eliminates eligibility inequities across the states. However, it is argued that when state budgets are strained, as they undoubtedly will be when the reform bill is fully implemented, local officials will downsize benefit packages, raise...

..., homosexual rights, feminism, gun control) have inverted the class determinant of partisan choice to the point where lower-income white voters favor the Republican Party while professionals have shifted toward the Democratic Party. The article concludes that there is significant evidence that the class...

... to all households with income at or below 138 percent of the Federal Poverty Level. However, in 2012 the Supreme Court ruled that states had a choice of whether to adopt the expansion. Currently, 23 states have opted out, undermining the ACA significantly. This article assesses how partisanship...

... to shore up monetary supply. Another approach, suggested here, is to understand recent economic losses as part of a larger income and wealth re-distribution over the last several decades. Accelerated by the Great Recession, these losses may be considered as a consequence of intentioned efforts by certain...

... the government to address the problem of economic inequality. They also seek to show that regardless of income or party ISSN 0739-3148 print/ISSN 1469-9931 on-line/10/020297-6 DOl: 10.1080/07393141003722149 298 Stefan HeUl1zann identification, a majority of Americans are not only concerned about rising...

... Movement Takes Root across Nation: Controversial Effort Aids Lower-Income Workers," USA Today, July 23, 2002. 4 Robert Kuttner, "The 'Living Wage' Movement," Washington Post, August 20, 1997. Although there is an extensive literature on living wage ordinances, it is not published in political science...

..., activists today. It is our purpose to advance a strategy which affords the basis for a convergence of civil rights organizations, militant anti-poverty groups and the poor. If this strategy were implemented, a political crisis would result that could lead to legislation for a guaranteed annual income...

... cuts? This quid pro quo adumbrated a pattern of policy compromises that rendered the progressive federal income tax structure vulnerable to a popular, if partially engineered, tax backlash within a decade.4 This revolt occurred despite the Democrats trimming minority-oriented social programs in order...

...-scale redistribution of income and wealth, it does require defanging inequalities of income and wealth, ensuring that the affluent cannot use their money to purchase goods that ought to remain outside money's sphere" (p. 7). Furthermore, Clarence Stone, in his essay, "Beyond the Equality-Efficiency...

... https:llwww.pewresearch.org/politics/2021/05/17/public-trust-in-government-1958-2021 I (accessed September 3, 2022). © 2023 Caucus for a New Political Science @2 R. HAYDUK ET AL. class, race and age: low-income groups, racial and ethnic minorities, and youth continue to participate at lower levels than do dominant groups...

..., with estimates of intergenerational income mobility ranging from ".4 and possibly higher" to .6.1 Mazumder illustrates what that difference in those estimates means substantively; a family right at the poverty line would take 125-150 years "before their income would be within 5% of the national average...

... responsiveness to the policy preferences of low- and moderate-income people.1 Correspondingly, this scholarship typically insinuates that higher responsiveness would lead to alternative egalitarian policies that better mitigate the marginalization of the poor. This account, although compelling, has two problems...