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在美国,平权法案(Affirmative action)/(Affirmative Act),又称为积极平权措施,是指美国联邦政府和州政府在法律要求的平等机会。这些措施是为了防止在“肤色、宗教、性别或民族出身”上对雇员或就业申请人的歧视[1][2]。例如美国劳工部提供的扶持行动包括宣传活动,有针对性的招聘,员工和管理的发展,以及员工的支持计划。[2]
美国政府自1960年代推动扶持行动[3][4][5][6][7],以纠正历史上与之相关的有明显歧视的缺点[8]。法案进一步推动是要确保公共机构,如大学、医院和军队的扶持行动,更是扶持他们所服务的人群得到平等对待。扶持行动是一个有争议的问题。扶持行动采取了一些政策,如种族配额或大学入学的性别配额,被批评为“逆向歧视”(Reverse Discrimination)的一种形式。[9]
起源
编辑美国最高法院于19世纪中叶就开始了依据宪法中的保障原则来保护黑人公民权利的行为。虽然宪法已保障少数族裔及性别的权利,但不少在职业及教育上仍然受到歧视,公民权利并没有获得保障。
兴起
编辑美国平权运动是1960年代伴随非裔美国人民权运动、女权运动、性革命等一连串民权运动兴起的一项社会运动,并于民权法案通过后进一步扩大。
1965年由民主党政府的美国总统林登·约翰逊发起,主张在大学招生、政府招标等情况下照顾如少数民族、女性等弱势群体,是一个特定时期“种族优先”的法律,保障他们不会在教育及工作方面受到歧视及不公平对待。
支持平权行动论点
编辑肯尼迪总统在第10925号行政命令中指出:“由于种族,信仰,肤色或民族血统而受到歧视,这违反了美国的宪法原则和政策”; “美国政府的明确和积极的义务是,促进和确保所有合格人员享有平等的机会,而不论其种族,信仰,肤色或国籍,在联邦政府工作或根据政府合同受雇或寻求工作“; “政府行政部门的政策是通过积极措施鼓励政府内所有合格人员平等机会”;并且“通过最有效地利用所有可用人力来促进其经济,安全和国防,符合美国的普遍利益和福利”。[10]
教育领域
编辑由于平权法案的推行,美国教育领域的形势有从一个极端到另一个极端的现象时有发生。比如,有的教育和研究项目,走到了不是少数族裔就不能申请进入的境地。对少数族裔的优惠,在某些方面似乎过了头。以著名的密西根大学为例,新生的入学总体评分,必要的毕业考试SAT成绩,满分占18点,而少数族裔种族优惠分就占20点。也就是说,如果一个非常用功的非少数族裔青年,在SAT考试中得到满分,1600分(大概在0.5%左右),在其它条件相同的情况下,那么他/她将在总分上低于一个没有SAT成绩的少数族裔青年。当然这是理论上的逻辑说法,实际不会发生这样离奇的事件。但是,过中的问题已经清楚地表现出来了。
密西根大学两个白人学生在2005年为此诉诸法律,状告学校当局,歧视白人学生。几经周折,这个案子最后上诉到了联邦最高法院。由于明显的不合理,近来不少重要大学先后取消或者是修改了若干“歧视”少数族裔学生的项目。其中包括麻省理工,普林斯顿大学,爱荷华,北卡州等等。[11]
不少白人及保守派认为,这种平权运动矫枉过正,形成了一种对白人和男性学生的“逆向歧视”。也就是在高等教育入学时任何一个孩子都可能在考试分数高于一个黑人孩子时遭到拒绝,而考分相对较低的非裔美国人孩子可能被录取。加州大学首先将废除平权法案提上议案,并在1995年正式停止实施在招生中优惠少数族裔和妇女。
现状
编辑目前亚裔是教育平权思想最大的受害者。例如普林斯顿大学的录取中,亚裔的录取者的SAT成绩需要比白人、西裔、非裔的成绩分别高出50、235、280分[12]。哈佛大学的录取中,亚裔需要比白人、西裔、非裔分别高出140、270、450分。[13]。
在加州大学系统尝试提出教育平权法案SCA5的2014年,加州大学录取的新生除去国际学生和种族不明之外,29%是白人,41%是亚裔,25%西班牙裔,5%非洲裔[14]。而根据1996年的人口出生数据[15],当年达到入学年龄的学生中34%是白人,11%是亚裔,47%西班牙裔,7%非洲裔。因此如果加州大学引入种族配额,亚裔将承担所有成本,而白人将和其他族裔一起从中受益。
就业
编辑在美国,工资最高的公司中[16],排名前五的谷歌、Salesforce、脸书、微软、NetApp中,亚裔/白人/西裔/非裔的员工比例分别是32/59/3/2%(Google[17])、24/65/4/2%(Salesforce[18])、36/55/4/2%(脸书[19])、31/58/6/4%(微软[20])、24/66/5/3(NetApp[21])。而根据[22]推算,美国的劳动力中这四个族裔比例分别为6/64/17/12%。因此就业平权如果在这些公司推广,则亚裔仍然首当其冲,而白人将不受影响或略微获益。
同样根据[22],亚裔/白人/西裔/非裔的中位周薪分别是$993/835/604/641,全国中位值为$809。因此即使在全国范围内推广就业收入的平权,亚裔依然将受到最严重的冲击。
参考资料
编辑- ^ [Executive Order 11246]--Equal employment opportunity. The Federal Register. [2010-05-05].
- ^ 2.0 2.1 Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP). U.S. Department of Labor. [2010-05-05]. (原始内容存档于2009-11-28).
- ^ Herring, Cedric, African Americans and Disadvantage in the U.S. Labor Market (PDF), University of Michigan: 1, 1995
- ^ Chubb, C; Melis, S.; Potter, L.; Storry, R. The Global Gender Pay Gap (pdf). International Trade Union Confederation. 2008 [2010-05-00].
- ^ Butto, James; Moore, Kelli N; RIENZO, BARBARA A. [ttp://www.britannica.com/bps/additionalcontent/18/37134799/Supporting-Diversity-Works-African-American-Male-and-Female-Employment-in-Six-Florida-Cities Supporting Diversity Works: African American Male and Female Employment in Six Florida Cities] (pdf). Western Journal of Black Studies. 2006 [2010-05-05].
- ^ Obama, Barack. Presidential Proclamation -- National Equal Pay Day. Office of the Press Secretary. 2010-04-20 [2010-05-05]. (原始内容存档于2010年4月26日).
- ^ Median Weekly Earnings, by sex and race. U.S. Department of Labor. 2008 [2010-05-05]. (原始内容存档于2010-05-27).
- ^ Anderson, Elizabeth S.; Rawls, John; Thurnau, Arthur F. Race, Gender, and Affirmative Action. University of Michigan. July 2008 [2010-05-05].
- ^ Douthat, Ross. Affirmative Action. The New York Times (New York Times). 2009-06-15 [2010-05-05].
- ^ Executive Order 10925: Establishing the President's Committee on Equal Employment Opportunity. thecre.com. Center for Regulatory Effectiveness. March 6, 1961.
- ^ 法律教育网 从平权法案看美国民主的进程 互联网档案馆的存档,存档日期2013-06-29.
- ^ For Asian Americans, a changing landscape on college admissions
- ^ Asian Americans file complaint alleging discrimination in Harvard admissions
- ^ University of California Fall Enrollment Glance
- ^ Births, by Race/Ethnicity
- ^ 26 of the best, highest-paying companies in America
- ^ Google diversity
- ^ Equality - Salesforce.com
- ^ Driving Diversity at Facebook
- ^ Inside Microsoft
- ^ NetApp DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
- ^ 22.0 22.1 [1]
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Not including Social Security and Medicare, Congress allocated almost $717 billion in federal funds in 2010 plus $210 billion was allocated in state funds ($927 billion total) for means tested welfare programs in the United States, of which half was for medical care and roughly 40% for cash, food and housing assistance. Some of these programs include funding for public schools, job training, SSI benefits and medicaid.[1] 截至2011年[update], the public social spending-to-GDP ratio in Social spending after the crisis. OECD. (Social spending in a historical perspective, p. 5). Retrieved: 26 December 2012.</ref> Roughly half of this welfare assistance, or $462 billion went to families with children, most of which are led by single parents.引用错误:没有找到与<ref>
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In addition to government expenditures, private welfare spending, i.e. social insurance programs provided to workers by employers,[3] in the United States is estimated to be about 10% of the U.S. GDP or another $1.6 trillion, according to 2013 OECD estimates.[4] In 2001, Jacob Hacker estimated that public and private social welfare expenditures constituted 21% and 13–14% of the United States' GDP respectively. In these estimates of private social welfare expenditures, Hacker included mandatory private provisions (less than 1% of GDP), subsidized and/or regulated private provisions (9–10% of GDP), and purely private provisions (3–4% of GDP).[5]
The first large-scale social policy program in the United States was assistance to Civil War veterans and their families.[6] The program provided pensions and disability assistance.[6] From 1990 to the early 1920s, the U.S. provided what Theda Skocpol characterized as "maternalist policies", as it provided pensions for widowed mothers.[6]
Federal welfare programs
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Colonial legislatures and later State governments adopted legislation patterned after the English "poor" laws.[7] Aid to veterans, often free grants of land, and pensions for widows and handicapped veterans, have been offered in all U.S. wars. Following World War I, provisions were made for a full-scale system of hospital and medical care benefits for veterans. By 1929, workers' compensation laws were in effect in all but four states.[8] These state laws made industry and businesses responsible for the costs of compensating workers or their survivors when the worker was injured or killed in connection with his or her job. Retirement programs for mainly State and local government paid teachers, police officers, and fire fighters—date back to the 19th century. All these social programs were far from universal and varied considerably from one state to another.
Prior to the Great Depression the United States had social programs that mostly centered around individual efforts, family efforts, church charities, business workers compensation, life insurance and sick leave programs along with some state tax supported social programs. The misery and poverty of the great depression threatened to overwhelm all these programs. The severe Depression of the 1930s made Federal action necessary,[9] as neither the states and the local communities, businesses and industries, nor private charities had the financial resources to cope with the growing need among the American people.[10] Beginning in 1932, the Federal Government first made loans, then grants, to states to pay for direct relief and work relief. After that, special Federal emergency relief like the Civilian Conservation Corps and other public works programs were started.[11] In 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration proposed to Congress federal social relief programs and a federally sponsored retirement program. Congress followed by the passage of the 37 page Social Security Act, signed into law August 14, 1935 and "effective" by 1939—just as World War II began. This program was expanded several times over the years.
Economic historians led by Price Fishback have examined the impact of New Deal spending on improving health conditions inl有 114 largest cities, 1929–1937. They estimated that every addition$153,000 in relief spending (in 1935 dollars, or $2.3 million in 2020 dollars) was associated with a reduction of one infant death, one suicide, and 2.4 deaths from infectious disease.[12][13]
War on Poverty and Great Society programs (1960s)
编辑Virtually all food stamp costs are paid by the federal government.[14] In 2008, 28.7 percent of the households headed by single women were considered poor.[15]
Welfare reform (1990s)
编辑Before the Welfare Reform Act of 1996, welfare assistance was "once considered an open-ended right," but welfare reform converted it "into a finite program built to provide short-term cash assistance and steer people quickly into jobs."[16] Prior to reform, states were given "limitless"[16] money by the federal government, increasing per family on welfare, under the 60-year-old Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program.[17] This gave states no incentive to direct welfare funds to the neediest recipients or to encourage individuals to go off welfare benefits (the state lost federal money when someone left the system).[18] Nationwide, one child in seven received AFDC funds,[17] which mostly went to single mothers.[14]
In 1996, under the Bill Clinton administration, Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, which gave more control of the welfare system to the states, with basic requirements the states need to meet with regards to welfare services. Some states still offer basic assistance, such as health care, food assistance, child care assistance, unemployment, a few offering cash aid, and one or two offering housing assistance, depending on the state and the circumstance. After reforms, which President Clinton said would "end welfare as we know it,"[14] amounts from the federal government were given out in a flat rate per state based on population.[18]
Each state must meet certain criteria to ensure recipients are being encouraged to work themselves out of welfare. The new program is called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).[17] It encourages states to require some sort of employment search in exchange for providing funds to individuals, and imposes a five-year lifetime limit on cash assistance.[14][17][19] The bill restricts welfare from most legal immigrants and increased financial assistance for child care.[19] The federal government also maintains a contingency $2 billion TANF fund (TANF CF) to assist states that may have rising unemployment.[17] The new TANF program expired on September 30, 2010, on schedule with states drawing down the entire original emergency fund of $5 billion and the contingency fund of $2 billion allocated by ARRA. Reauthorization of TANF was not accomplished in 2011, but TANF block grants were extended as part of the Claims Resolution Act of 2010 (see Temporary Aid for Needy Families for details).
Following these changes, millions of people left the welfare rolls (a 60% drop overall),[19] employment rose, and the child poverty rate was reduced.[14] A 2007 Congressional Budget Office study found that incomes in affected families rose by 35%.[19] The reforms were "widely applauded"[20] after "bitter protest."[14] The Times called the reform "one of the few undisputed triumphs of American government in the past 20 years."[21] However, more recent studies have found that the reforms increased deep poverty by 130–150%.[22][23]
Critics of the reforms sometimes point out that the massive decrease of people on the welfare rolls during the 1990s wasn't due to a rise in actual gainful employment in this population, but rather, was due almost exclusively to their offloading into workfare, giving them a different classification than classic welfare recipient. The late 1990s were also considered an unusually strong economic time, and critics voiced their concern about what would happen in an economic downturn.[14]
National Review editorialized that the Economic Stimulus Act of 2009 will reverse the welfare-to-work provisions that Bill Clinton signed in the 1990s, and will again base federal grants to states on the number of people signed up for welfare rather than at a flat rate.[18] One of the experts who worked on the 1996 bill said that the provisions would lead to the largest one-year increase in welfare spending in American history.[21] The House bill provides $4 billion to pay 80% of states' welfare caseloads.[17] Although each state received $16.5 billion annually from the federal government as welfare rolls dropped, they spent the rest of the block grant on other types of assistance rather than saving it for worse economic times.[16]
Spending on largest Welfare Programs Federal Spending 2003–2013*[24] | ||
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Federal Programs |
Spending 2003* |
Spending 2013* |
Medicaid Grants to States | $201,389 | $266,565 |
Food Stamps (SNAP) | 61,717 | 82,603 |
Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) | 40,027 | 55,123 |
Supplemental Security Income (SSI) | 38,315 | 50,544 |
Housing assistance | 37,205 | 49,739 |
Child Nutrition Program (CHIP) | 13,558 | 20,842 |
Support Payments to States, TANF | 28,980 | 20,842 |
Feeding Programs (WIC & CSFP) | 5,695 | 6,671 |
Low Income Home Energy Assistance | 2,542 | 3,704 |
Notes: * Spending in millions of dollars |
Timeline
编辑The following is a short timeline of welfare in the United States:[25]
1880s–1890s: Attempts were made to move poor people from work yards to poor houses if they were in search of relief funds.
1893–1894: Attempts were made at the first unemployment payments, but were unsuccessful due to the 1893–1894 recession.
1932: The Great Depression had gotten worse and the first attempts to fund relief failed. The "Emergency Relief Act", which gave local governments $300 million, was passed into law.
1933: In March 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt pushed Congress to establish the Civilian Conservation Corps.
1935: The Social Security Act was passed on June 17, 1935. The bill included direct relief (cash, food stamps, etc.) and changes for unemployment insurance.
1940: Aid to Families With Dependent Children (AFDC) was established.
1964: Johnson's War on Poverty is underway, and the Economic Opportunity Act was passed. Commonly known as "the Great Society"
1996: Passed under Clinton, the "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996" becomes law.
2013: Affordable Care Act goes into effect with large increases in Medicaid and subsidized medical insurance premiums go into effect.
Types
编辑Means-tested
编辑79 Means Tested Programs in U.S. (2011)[26] | |||
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Programs | Federal Spending* | State Spending* | Total Spending* |
TOTAL cost in (billions) (2011) | $717 | $210 | $927 |
Social Security OASDI (2013) | $785 | ||
Medicare(2013) | $574 | ||
TOTAL all programs (billions) | $2,286 | ||
CASH ASSISTANCE (millions) | |||
SSI/Old Age Assistance | 56,462 | 4,673 | 61,135 |
Earned Income Tax Credit (refundable portion) | 55,652 | 55,652 | |
Refundable Child Credit | 22,691 | 22,691 | |
Make Work Pay Tax Credit (Refundable Portion) | 13,905 | 13,905 | |
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF, old AFDC) | 6,883 | 6,877 | 13,760 |
Foster Care Title IVE | 4,456 | 3,921 | 8,377 |
Adoption Assistance Title IVE | 2,362 | 1,316 | 3,678 |
General Assistance Cash | 2,625 | 2,625 | |
Refugee Assistance | 168 | 168 | |
General Assistance to Indians | 115 | 115 | |
Assets for Independence | 24 | 24 | |
CASH TOTAL | 162,718 | 19,412 | 182,130 |
MEDICAL | |||
Medicaid | 274,964 | 157,600 | 432,564 |
SCHIP State Supplemental Health Insurance Program | 8,629 | 3,797 | 12,426 |
Medical General Assistance | 6,966 | 6,966 | |
Consolidated Health Center/Community Health Centers | 1,481 | 1,481 | |
Maternal & Child Health | 656 | 492 | 1,148 |
Medical Assistance to Refugees | 168 | 168 | |
Healthy Start | 104 | 104 | |
MEDICAL TOTAL | 289,817 | 168,855 | 458,672 |
FOOD | |||
Food Stamps, SNAP | 77,637 | 6,987 | 84,624 |
School Lunch Program | 10,321 | 10,321 | |
WIC Women, Infant and Children Food Program | 6,787 | 6,787 | |
School Breakfast | 3,076 | 3,076 | |
Child Care Food Program | 2,732 | 2,732 | |
Nutrition Program for the Elderly, Nutrition Service Incentives | 820 | 139 | 959 |
Summer Program | 376 | 376 | |
Commodity Supplemental Food Program | 196 | 196 | |
TEFAP Temporary Emergency Food Program | 247 | 247 | |
Needy Families | 60 | 60 | |
Farmers' Market Nutrition Program | 23 | 23 | |
Special Milk Program | 13 | 13 | |
FOOD TOTAL | 102,288 | 7,127 | 109,415 |
HOUSING | |||
Section 8 Housing (HUD) | 28,435 | 28,435 | |
Public Housing (HUD) | 8,973 | 8,973 | |
Low Income Housing Tax Credit for Developers | 6,150 | 6,150 | |
Home Investment Partnership Program (HUD) | 2,853 | 2,853 | |
Homeless Assistance Grants (HUD) | 2,280 | 2,280 | |
State Housing Expenditures (from SWE) | 2,085 | 2,085 | |
Rural Housing Insurance Fund (Agriculture) | 1,689 | 1,689 | |
Rural Housing Service (Agriculture) | 1,085 | 1,085 | |
Housing for the Elderly (HUD) | 934 | 934 | |
Native American Housing Block Grants (HUD) | 854 | 854 | |
Other Assisted Housing Programs (HUD) | 496 | 496 | |
Housing for Persons with Disabilities (HUD) | 309 | 309 | |
HOUSING TOTAL | 54,058 | 2,085 | 56,143 |
ENERGY AND UTILITIES | |||
LIHEAP Low Income Home Energy Assistance | 4,419 | 4,419 | |
Universal Service Fund Subsidized Low Income Phone Service | 1,750 | 1,750 | |
Weatherization | 234 | 234 | |
ENERGY AND UTILITIES TOTAL | 6,403 | 6,403 | |
EDUCATION | |||
Pell Grants | 41,458 | 41,458 | |
Title One Grants to Local Education Authorities | 14,472 | 14,472 | |
21st Century Learning Centers | 1,157 | 1,157 | |
Special Programs for Disadvantaged (TRIO) | 883 | 883 | |
Supplemental Education Opportunity Grants | 740 | 740 | |
Adult Basic Education Grants | 607 | 607 | |
Migrant Education | 444 | 444 | |
Gear-Up | 303 | 303 | |
LEAP Formerly State Student Incentive Grant Program (SSIG) |
1 | 1 | |
Education for Homeless Children and Youth | 65 | 65 | |
Even Start | 4 | 4 | |
Aid for Graduate and Professional Study for Disadvantaged and Minorities | 41 | 41 | |
EDUCATION TOTAL | 60,175 | 60,175 | |
TRAINING | |||
TANF Work Activities and Training | 2,505 | 832 | 3,337 |
Job Corps | 1,659 | 1,659 | |
WIA Youth Opportunity Grants Formerly Summer Youth Employment |
946 | 946 | |
Senior Community Service Employment | 705 | 78 | 783 |
WIA Adult Employment and Training Formerly JTPA IIA Training for Disadvantaged Adults & Youth |
766 | 766 | |
Food Stamp Employment and Training Program | 393 | 166 | 559 |
Foster Grandparents | 104 | 10 | 114 |
YouthBuild | 110 | 110 | |
Migrant Training | 85 | 85 | |
Native American Training | 52 | 52 | |
TRAINING TOTAL | 7,325 | 1,086 | 8,411 |
SERVICES | |||
TANF Block Grant Services | 5,385 | 4,838 | 10,223 |
Title XX Social Services Block Grant | 1,787 | 1,787 | |
Community Service Block Grant | 678 | 678 | |
Social Services for Refugees Asylees and Humanitarian Cases | 417 | 417 | |
Safe and Stable Families | 553 | 553 | |
Title III Aging Americans Act | 369 | 369 | |
Legal Services Block Grant | 406 | 406 | |
Family Planning | 298 | 298 | |
Emergency Food and Shelter Program | 48 | 48 | |
Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood Grants | 50 | 50 | |
Independent Living (Chafee Foster Care Independence Program) | 140 | 28 | 168 |
Independent Living Training Vouchers | 45 | 45 | |
Maternal, Infants and Children Home Visitation | 36 | 36 | |
SERVICES TOTAL | 10,411 | 4,866 | 15,278 |
CHILD CARE AND CHILD DEVELOPMENT | |||
Headstart | 7,559 | 1,890 | 9,449 |
Childcare and Child Development Block Grant | 2,984 | 2,176 | 5,160 |
Childcare Entitlement to the States | 3,100 | 3,100 | |
TANF Block Grant Child Care | 2,319 | 2,644 | 4,962 |
CHILD CARE & CHILD DEVELOPMENT TOTAL | 15,962 | 6,710 | 22,671 |
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | |||
Community Development Block Grant and Related Development Funds | 7,445 | 7,445 | |
Economic Development Administration (Dept. of Commerce) | 423 | 423 | |
Appalachian Regional Development | 68 | 68 | |
Empowerment Zones, Enterprise Communities Renewal | 1 | 1 | |
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT TOTAL | 7,937 | 7,937 | |
TOTAL in millions (2011) | $717,093 | $210,140 | $927,234 |
Social Security OASDI (2013) | $785,700 | ||
Medicare (2013) | $574,200 | ||
TOTAL in millions | $2,287,133 |
* Spending in millions of dollars
2.3 Trillion Dollar Total of Social Security, Medicare and Means Tested Welfare is low since latest 2013 means tested data not available but 2013, the "real" TOTAL will be higher.
Social Security
编辑The Social Security program mainly refers to the Old Age, Survivors, and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program, and possibly the unemployment insurance program. Retirement Insurance Benefits (RIB), also known as Old-age Insurance Benefits, are a form of social insurance payments made by the U.S. Social Security Administration paid based upon the attainment old age (62 or older).
Social Security Disability Insurance (SSD or SSDI) is a federal insurance program that provides income supplements to people who are restricted in their ability to be employed because of a notable disability.
Unemployment insurance, also known as unemployment compensation, provides for money, from the United States and the state collected from employers, to workers who have become unemployed through no fault of their own. The unemployment benefits are run by each state with different state defined criteria for duration, percent of income paid, etc.. Nearly all require the recipient to document their search for employment to continue receiving benefits. Extensions of time for receiving benefits are sometimes offered for extensive work unemployment. These extra benefits are usually in the form of loans from the federal government that have to be repaid by each state.
General welfare
编辑The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program provides stipends to low-income people who are either aged (65 or older), blind, or disabled.
The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) provides cash assistance to indigent American families with dependent children.
Healthcare spending
编辑Health care in the United States is provided by many separate legal entities. Health care facilities are largely owned and operated by the private sector. Health insurance in the United States is now primarily provided by the government in the public sector, with 60–65% of healthcare provision and spending coming from programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, TRICARE, the Children's Health Insurance Program, and the Veterans Health Administration. Having some form of comprehensive health insurance is statutorily compulsory for most people lawfully residing within the US.[27]
Medicare is a social insurance program administered by the United States government, providing health insurance coverage to people who are aged 65 and over; to those who are under 65 and are permanently physically disabled or who have a congenital physical disability; or to those who meet other special criteria like the End Stage Renal Disease Program (ESRD). Medicare in the United States somewhat resembles a single-payer health care system but is not.[为何?] Before Medicare, only 51% of people aged 65 and older had health care coverage, and nearly 30% lived below the federal poverty level.
Medicaid is a health program for certain people and families with low incomes and resources. It is a means-tested program that is jointly funded by the state and federal governments, and is managed by the states.[28] People served by Medicaid are U.S. citizens or legal permanent residents, including low-income adults, their children, and people with certain disabilities. Medicaid is the largest source of funding for medical and health-related services for people with limited income in the United States.
The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) is a program administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides matching funds to states for health insurance to families with children.[29] The program was designed to cover uninsured children in families with incomes that are modest but too high to qualify for Medicaid.
The Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Mental Health Services Block Grant (or ADMS Block Grant) is a federal assistance block grant given by the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
The Trump administration has decided to cut $9 million in Affordable Care Act subsidies by 2018.[30] This action was taken by use of Executive Order 13813, on October 12, 2017.[31] The initial goal had been for Republicans in Congress to use their majority to "repeal and replace" the Affordable Care Act, but they proved unable to do so;[32] therefore, the Trump administration itself took measures to weaken the program.[33] The healthcare changes are expected to be noticeable by the year 2019.[30]
Education spending
编辑Per capita spending on tertiary education is among the highest in the world[来源请求]. Public education is managed by individual states, municipalities and regional school districts. As in all developed countries, primary and secondary education is free, universal and mandatory. Parents do have the option of home-schooling their children, though some states, such as California (until a 2008 legal ruling overturned this requirement[34]), require parents to obtain teaching credentials before doing so. Experimental programs give lower-income parents the option of using government issued vouchers to send their kids to private rather than public schools in some states/regions.
As of 2007, more than 80% of all primary and secondary students were enrolled in public schools, including 75% of those from households with incomes in the top 5%. Public schools commonly offer after-school programs and the government subsidizes private after school programs, such as the Boys & Girls Club. While pre-school education is subsidized as well, through programs such as Head Start, many Americans still find themselves unable to take advantage of them. Some education critics have therefore proposed creating a comprehensive transfer system to make pre-school education universal, pointing out that the financial returns alone would compensate for the cost.
Tertiary education is not free, but is subsidized by individual states and the federal government. Some of the costs at public institutions is carried by the state.
The government also provides grants, scholarships and subsidized loans to most students. Those who do not qualify for any type of aid, can obtain a government guaranteed loan and tuition can often be deducted from the federal income tax. Despite subsidized attendance cost at public institutions and tax deductions, however, tuition costs have risen at three times the rate of median household income since 1982.[35] In fear that many future Americans might be excluded from tertiary education, progressive Democrats have proposed increasing financial aid and subsidizing an increased share of attendance costs. Some Democratic politicians and political groups have also proposed to make public tertiary education free of charge, i.e. subsidizing 100% of attendance cost.[来源请求]
Food assistance
编辑In the U.S., financial assistance for food purchasing for low- and no-income people is provided through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program.[36] This federal aid program is administered by the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, but benefits are distributed by the individual U.S. states. It is historically and commonly known as the Food Stamp Program, though all legal references to "stamp" and "coupon" have been replaced by "EBT" and "card," referring to the refillable, plastic Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) cards that replaced the paper "food stamp" coupons. To be eligible for SNAP benefits, the recipients must have incomes below 130 percent of the poverty line, and also own few assets.[37] Since the economic downturn began in 2008, the use of food stamps has increased.[37]
The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) is a child nutrition program for healthcare and nutrition of low-income pregnant women, breastfeeding women, and infants and children under the age of five. The eligibility requirement is a family income below 185% of the U.S. Poverty Income Guidelines, but if a person participates in other benefit programs, or has family members who participate in SNAP, Medicaid, or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, they automatically meet the eligibility requirements.
The Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) is a type of United States federal assistance provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) to states in order to provide a daily subsidized food service for an estimated 3.2 million children and 112,000 elderly or mentally or physically impaired adults[38] in non-residential, day-care settings.[39]
Public housing
编辑The Housing and Community Development Act of 1974 created Section 8 housing, the payment of rent assistance to private landlords on behalf of low-income households.
Impact
编辑Average Incomes and Taxes CBO Study 2009*[40] | ||||||||
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Households by Income (%) |
Market Income1 |
Federal Transfers 2 |
Income + Transfers |
Avg Federal Tax rate %3 |
Federal Taxes $4 |
% Federal Taxes Pd. 5 |
#W6 | % Net Income7 |
0–20 | 7,600 | 22,900 | 30,500 | 1.0 | 200 | 0.3 | 0.42 | 6.2 |
21–40 | 30,100 | 14,800 | 45,000 | 6.8 | 2,900 | 3.8 | 0.90 | 11.1 |
41–60 | 54,200 | 10,400 | 64,600 | 11.1 | 7,200 | 9.4 | 1.29 | 15.8 |
61–80 | 86,400 | 7,100 | 93,500 | 15.1 | 14,100 | 18.3 | 1.70 | 21.6 |
80–100 | 218,800 | 6,000 | 224,800 | 23.2 | 51,900 | 67.9 | 1.97 | 47.2 |
Source: Congressional Budget Office Study[40] 1. Market Income = All wages, tips, incomes etc. as listed on Income tax form 2. Federal Transfers = all EITC, CTC, medicaid, food stamps (SNAP), Social Security, SSI etc. received 3. Average tax rate includes all Social Security, Medicare, income, business income, excise, etc. taxes. 4. Net Federal taxes paid in dollars 5. Percent of all federal taxes paid 6. #W = Average number of workers per household in this quintile 7. % Net Income = percentage of all national income each quintile receives after taxes and transfers. |
According to a 2020 study in the Quarterly Journal of Economics, government programs that focus on improving low-income children's health and educational outcomes are the most effective social programs in the United States, with benefits substantial enough that the US government recoups its investment.[41]
According to the Congressional Budget Office, social programs significantly raise the standard of living for low-income Americans, particularly the elderly. The poorest 20% of American households earn a before-tax average of only $7,600, less than half of the federal poverty line. Social programs increase such households' before-tax income to $30,500. Social Security and Medicare are responsible for two thirds of that increase.[40]
Political scientist Benjamin Radcliff has argued that more generous social programs produce a higher quality of life for all citizens, rich and poor alike, as such programs not only improve life for those directly receiving benefits (or living in fear of someday needing them, from the prospect of unemployment or illness) but also reduce the social pathologies (such as crime and anomie) that are the result of poverty and insecurity. By creating a society with less poverty and less insecurity, he argues, we move closer to creating a nation of shared prosperity that works to the advantage of all. Thus, his research suggests, life satisfaction (or "happiness") is strongly related to the generosity of the social safety net (what economists often call decommodification), whether looking across the industrial democracies or across the American states.[42]
Social Impact
编辑Complaints of mistreatment in navigating the welfare state are commonplace, with most unpleasant encounters arising from interactions between welfare recipients and social workers.[43] The dominant approach to social work was casework which emphasized the personal characteristics or moral deficiencies of the recipient rather than social reform. In some cases the said deficiency was grounds for denying assistance. Casework fostered a paternalistic and demeaning relationship between social workers and clients. Caseworkers are the persons who have the most opportunity for showing respect or disrespect to the welfare client.[43] Attitudes of welfare clients toward their caseworkers are described not as much in terms of what they receive in their checks but rather in terms of the relationship that they have with their caseworker; a study found that the way in which a client was shown respect was often more important to the client than what the provider in the situation did to solve the client’s problems.[44]
As such, there has been work in the private and public sector to target the relationships between social worker and welfare recipients as a way to improve access to social provisions and ease the transition from welfare to work. In a study conducted of the association between the relationship held between people with mental health illnesses who are arrested and sent to mental health court with the mental health court (MHC) caseworker assigned to their case and outcomes, researchers found that perceived conflict with caseworkers was higher in a number of participants who were terminated or missing from MHC. Participants who reported less conflict with an assigned caseworker utilized more services and spent fewer days in jail.[45] The study shows the importance a perceived bond has on a participant's use of services, with less perceived conflict resulting in an increase of service use and program retention and decrease in jail time served.[45] Similar results were found in an evaluation of the impact of eleven different welfare-to-work approaches on adults and children in the course of five years.[46] Two programs who had lower enforcement of the participation mandate compared to the other nine, had little to no impact on employment and earnings if its participants. It appears that a minimum level of involvement and enforcement by program staff is required to produce a moderate improvement in employment—without it, participants who would not participate on their own volition would not engage in the program’s activities and reap the benefits from them.[46] Within the same evaluation it was found that programs that appointed one caseworker per person rather than the traditional two, had better outcomes for participants than programs that had assigned two caseworkers per person.[46]
When a social worker demonstrates to her clients by her actions that she respects them, a relationship is able to grow. Clients who feel respected by their social worker will be more likely to freely discuss difficult topics, explore their own contributions, and appoint themselves in efforts to achieve specific outcomes.[47] A client’s perception of their provider’s level of regard for them was significantly related to their ability to achieve a certain outcome at the end of their program. Respect, although important throughout all phases of service, it is particularly crucial to interactions among newcomers or strangers.[47] Such expressions would include vocal sounds (ex. greeting, calling), physical movements (ex. serving, guiding), bodily movements (acknowledging, polite posture), appearance (ex. proper dressing, grooming), and so forth.[48]
When grievances do need be addressed by the welfare beneficiaries, they usually seek the assistance of a lawyer or advocate. Because advocacy is a practice of speaking for the advocate, no matter how “rebellious” they aspire to be, they inevitably perpetuate the same subordination of their client as the system they attempt to combat[49] Lucie White presents this point in her “Goldberg v Kelly On the Paradox of Lawyering for the Poor” and proposes that when lawyers are representing poor welfare recipients, lawyers need to continuously cede to “clients” the power to speak for themselves. Such an act would transform the lawyer from a professional service that is imposed upon subordinated communities to partners that allow clients to take the lead of their own advocacy.[49]
Analysis
编辑According to a 2012 review study, whether a social program generates public support depends on[50]:
- whether the program is universal or targeted towards certain groups
- the size of the social program benefits (larger benefits incentivize greater mobilization to defend a social program)
- the visibility and traceability of the benefits (whether recipients know where the benefits come from)
- the proximity and concentration of the beneficiaries (this affects the ease by which beneficiaries can organize to protect a social program)
- the duration of the benefits (longer benefits incentivize greater mobilization to defend a social program)
- the manner in which a program is administered (e.g. is the program inclusive, does it follow principles?)
Household characteristics
编辑Characteristics of Households by Quintile 2010[51] | |||||
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Household Income Bracket (%) |
0–20 | 21–40 | 41–60 | 61–80 | 81–100 |
Earners Per Household | 0.4 | 0.9 | 1.3 | 1.7 | 2.0 |
Marital Status | |||||
Married couples (%) | 17.0 | 35.9 | 48.8 | 64.3 | 78.4 |
Single Parents or Single (%) | 83.0 | 64.1 | 51.2 | 35.7 | 21.6 |
Ages of Householders | |||||
Under 35 | 23.3 | 24 | 24.5 | 21.8 | 14.6 |
36–64 years | 43.6 | 46.6 | 55.4 | 64.3 | 74.7 |
65 years + | 33.1 | 29.4 | 20.1 | 13.9 | 10.7 |
Work Status householders (%) | |||||
Worked Full Time (%) | 17.4 | 44.7 | 61.1 | 71.5 | 77.2 |
Worked Part Time (%) | 14.3 | 13.3 | 11.1 | 9.8 | 9.5 |
Did Not Work (%) | 68.2 | 42.1 | 27.8 | 17.7 | 13.3 |
Education of Householders (%) | |||||
Less than High School | 26.7 | 16.6 | 8.8 | 5.4 | 2.2 |
High School or some College | 61.2 | 65.4 | 62.9 | 58.5 | 37.6 |
Bachelor's degree or Higher | 12.1 | 18.0 | 28.3 | 36.1 | 60.3 |
Source: U.S. Census Bureau [来源可靠?] |
Social programs have been implemented to promote a variety of societal goals, including alleviating the effects of poverty on those earning or receiving low income or encountering serious medical problems, and ensuring retired people have a basic standard of living.
Unlike in Europe, Christian democratic and social democratic theories have not played a major role in shaping welfare policy in the United States.[52] Entitlement programs in the U.S. were virtually non-existent until the administration of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the implementation of the New Deal programs in response to the Great Depression. Between 1932 and 1981, modern American liberalism dominated U.S. economic policy and the entitlements grew along with American middle class wealth.[53]
Eligibility for welfare benefits depends on a variety of factors, including gross and net income, family size, pregnancy, homelessness, unemployment, and serious medical conditions like blindness, kidney failure or AIDS.
Drug testing for applicants
编辑The United States adopted the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act in 1996, which gave individual states the authority to drug test welfare recipients. Drug testing in order for potential recipients to receive welfare has become an increasingly controversial topic. Richard Hudson, a Republican from North Carolina claims he pushes for drug screening as a matter of "moral obligation" and that testing should be enforced as a way for the United States government to discourage drug usage.[54] Others claim that ordering the needy to drug test "stereotypes, stigmatizes, and criminalizes" them without need.[55] States that currently require drug tests to be performed in order to receive public assistance include Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Missouri, Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Utah.[56]
Demographics of TANF recipients
编辑Some have argued that welfare has come to be associated with poverty. Political scientist Martin Gilens argues that blacks have overwhelmingly dominated images of poverty over the last few decades and states that "white Americans with the most exaggerated misunderstandings of the racial composition of the poor are the most likely to oppose welfare".[58] This perception possibly perpetuates negative racial stereotypes and could increase Americans' opposition and racialization of welfare policies.[58]
In FY 2010, African-American families comprised 31.9% of TANF families, white families comprised 31.8%, and 30.0% were Hispanic.[59] Since the implementation of TANF, the percentage of Hispanic families has increased, while the percentages of white and black families have decreased. In FY 1997, African-American families represented 37.3% of TANF recipient families, white families 34.5%, and Hispanic families 22.5%.[60] As of 2013, the US population as a whole is composed of 63.7% whites, 16.3% Hispanic, 12.5% African-American, 4.8% Asian and 2.9% other races.[61] TANF programs at a cost of about $20.0 billion (2013) have decreased in use as Earned Income Tax Credits, Medicaid grants, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, Supplemental Security Income (SSI), child nutrition programs, Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), housing assistance, Feeding Programs (WIC & CSFP), along with about 70 more programs, have increased to over $700 billion more in 2013.[62]
Costs
编辑The Great Recession made a large impact on welfare spending. In a 2011 article, Forbes reported, "The best estimate of the cost of the 185 federal means tested welfare programs for 2010 for the federal government alone is $717 billion, up a third since 2008, according to the Heritage Foundation. Counting state spending of about $210 billion, total welfare spending for 2010 reached over $920 billion, up nearly one-fourth since 2008 (24.3%)"—and increasing fast.[63] The previous decade had seen a 60% decrease in the number of people receiving welfare benefits,[19] beginning with the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act, but spending did not decrease proportionally during that time period. Combined annual federal and state spending is the equivalent of over $21,000 for every person living below poverty level in America.[64]
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Further reading
编辑- MaCurdy, Thomas; Jones, Jeffrey M. Welfare. David R. Henderson (编). Concise Encyclopedia of Economics 2nd. Library of Economics and Liberty. 2008. ISBN 9780865976658. OCLC 237794267.
- Alison Siskin, Noncitizen Eligibility for Federal Public Assistance: Policy Overview, Congressional Research Service, 12 December 2016
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