Everyone Is Still on Welfare
The Role of Redistribution in Social Policy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10554221 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mimi Abramovitz (0000-0002-0945-2981, Hunter College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 297-308 |
| Publication date | 2001-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social Work (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-8046 • E-ISSN: 1545-6846 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/sw/46.4.297 |
| PMID | 11682971 |
| OpenAlex | W2129376364 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 25 |
| References cited | 2 |
Most people have an inaccurate assessment of who is "on welfare." Two decades have passed since Social Work published the original version of this article, which applied Titmuss's framework of a three-tiered social welfare system and showed that nearly "everyone is on welfare." Based on new data and a more in-depth analysis, this article re-examines who benefits from and who pays for social, fiscal, and corporate welfare and concludes that all three welfare systems continue to serve and to favor the middle class, wealthy households, and large corporations. Social workers can work to transform the system from one that rewards power and privilege to one that ensures distributive justice for all
Economic growth · Economics · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Privilege (computing · Public economics · Redistribution (election · Social policy · Social Welfare · Welfare · Work (physics · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Social Work
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| Unique citing works | 25 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,14 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2025 (22) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 25 |