WGST 2P86 Lecture : WISE 2P86 2011 Spring Chapter 11
11 Feb 2012
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Chapter 11 policies affecting paid work and the family. The first major policy is welfare, a government transfer program. It is known as social assistance (sa) in canada and is primarily a provincial jurisdiction and provinces differ. Redesigning welfare (sa) is made particularly difficult by the fact that three often sought policy goals are in conflict. Iron triangle of welfare: alleviating poverty, providing incentives to work, and limiting costs by keeping down the number of welfare recipients. Employment strategies- another problem is that employment is often insufficient to lift families out of poverty. What is needed is a job that pays enough to live in, covers work related expenses, including child-care, transportation etc. The government could simply assist people in finding jobs, which is inexpensive, but jobs alone are not likely to help many of them escape poverty. The alternative is to provide education and skills that raise the earnings of both welfare recipients and the poor-more expensive.
