Urban Injustice: How Ghettos Happen by David Hilfiker & Marian Wright Edelman

Author:David Hilfiker & Marian Wright Edelman [Hilfiker, David & Edelman, Marian Wright]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781583226070
Amazon: 1583226079
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: 2003-09-02T00:00:00+00:00

It is no coincidence that social insurance programs are administered by the federal government using nationally uniform standards and benefits pegged to inflation. Public assistance programs, on the other hand, tend to be administered by state or local governments, with standards that vary from place to place, while cost-of-living raises for public assistance programs generally depend upon the uncertainties of local legislative whims and processes. Since few state or local governments permit “deficit spending,” in times of recession, when the need for public assistance is highest, local and state tax coffers dwindle. As a consequence, federally administered “social insurance” programs have substantially better benefits than “public assistance.” Compare the average $394 TANF payment for a family of three to the usual $515 payment for a single disabled person covered by the federal SSI program. As another example, in the twenty years before the Welfare Reform Act of 1996, AFDC benefits (adjusted for inflation) declined by 40 percent, while Social Security benefits remained stable.

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