Welfare Doesn't Work

Leah Hamilton is Associate Professor of Social Work at Appalachian State University, USA. She is an Executive Committee member for the Basic Income Earth Network and President of the American Civil Liberties Union of North Carolina.

• 1. A Tale of Two Ideas.- 2. From Welfare to Work (In Theory).- 3. Perverse Incentives.- 4. Assets and Household Stability.- 5. The Lives of Low-Income Women.- 6. A Two-Tiered Welfare State.- 7. The Most Vulnerable.- 8. The Alternative.