TY - JOUR
AU - Piven, Frances Fox
AB - AbstractOne error in research on the welfare-magnet thesis is its focus on the poor rather than on the well-endowed and mobile economic actors who influence state policymakers. Another error is the assumption that poor people are mobile participants in the game of locational advantage. Yet, unlike well-endowed economic actors who move funds and goods, the poor must move themselves and their own bodies, rather than resources. Hence, it is unlikely that poor people are playing much of a role in any race to the bottom in welfare policymaking.
TI - The Race Among the States in Welfare Benefits: A Comment
JO - Publius: The Journal of Federalism
DO - 10.1093/oxfordjournals.pubjof.a029983
DA - 1998-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/the-race-among-the-states-in-welfare-benefits-a-comment-Ol9h5hg8eF
SP - 39
EP - 43
VL - 28
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -