Hidden Welfare State Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States

Name: Hidden Welfare State Tax Expenditures and Social Policy in the United States
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ISBN: 9780691005294

ISBN-10: 069100529X

ISBN-13: 9780691005294

Edition: 1997

Authors: Christopher Howard

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Despite costing hundreds of billions of dollars and subsidizing everything from homeownership and child care to health insurance, tax expenditures (commonly known as tax loopholes) have received little attention from those who study American government. This oversight has contributed to an incomplete and misleading portrait of U.S. social policy. Here Christopher Howard analyzes the "hidden" welfare state created by such programs as tax deductions for home mortgage interest and employer-provided retirement pensions, the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the Targeted Jobs Tax Credit. Basing his work on the histories of these four tax expenditures, Howard highlights the distinctive…

Book details

List price: $58.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 3/14/1999
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.17" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



List of Tables


Acknowledgments


Abbreviations



Sizing Up the Hidden Welfare State



Home Mortgage Interest and Employer Pensions



Earned Income Tax Credit



Targeted Jobs Tax Credit



Home Mortgage Interest



Employer Pensions



Earned Income Tax Credit



Targeted Jobs Tax Credit



Politics of the Hidden Welfare State



List of Interviews


Notes


Index