PLCP 3120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Supplemental Security Income, Tax Expenditure, Batch Production
13 Dec 2017
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Hidden welfare state - kierkegaard"s private expenditures: tex expenditures vs. Direct expenditures: hidden welfare state structure vs. visible welfare state structure (minus housing, without benefit caps, progressive taxation creates regressive tax expenditures, howard ch. Popular or stigmatized: upper tier: most obvious is social security but also includes medicare disability. Insurance, workers comp, unemployment insurance: lower tier: most obvious is supplemental security income welfare aka. Light industry : labor intensive, loosely coupled, production is not that dependent on worker, sandwich maker, low barrier to entry, batch production. Heavy industry : capital intensive, tightly coupled, production is heavily dependent on work, car assembly line, entry barriers, efficiency wage, labor market segmentation. What are the functions: health care, government plans, medicare: national government with administrative assistance, medicaid: national and state governments, small public plans: schip, workers compensation, employment-based plans, tax expenditure, hill-burton hospital construction program. Inequities: historical development, workmen"s compensation, blue cross and blue shield plans, medicare,
