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access to health care
african americans
american south
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Author_Rourke O'Brien
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consumers
consumption
corporate taxes
crime
early mortality
economics
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food deserts
health care
health insurance
high school dropout
income taxes
legislation
modern health care
nonfiction
obesity
political science
poverty
prop 13
property taxes
public education
race
racism
regressive sales tax
rural
sales tax
social issues
social policy
social science
structural poverty
taxation
taxes
teen pregnancy
Product details
- ISBN 9780520269675
- Weight: 318g
- Dimensions: 140 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 27 Feb 2011
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book looks at the way we tax the poor in the United States, particularly in the American South, where poor families are often subject to income taxes, and where regressive sales taxes apply even to food for home consumption. Katherine S. Newman and Rourke L. O'Brien argue that these policies contribute in unrecognized ways to poverty-related problems like obesity, early mortality, the high school dropout rates, teen pregnancy, and crime. They show how, decades before California's passage of Proposition 13, many southern states implemented legislation that makes it almost impossible to raise property or corporate taxes, a pattern now growing in the western states. "Taxing the Poor" demonstrates how sales taxes intended to replace the missing revenue - taxes that at first glance appear fair - actually punish the poor and exacerbate the very conditions that drove them into poverty in the first place.
Katherine S. Newman is James B. Knapp Dean of the Arts and Sciences at Johns Hopkins University. Among her many books are Falling From Grace, No Shame in My Game, Rampage and The Missing Class: Portraits of the Near Poor in America. Rourke L. O'Brien is a graduate student in sociology and social policy at Princeton University and a non-resident fellow of the New America Foundation.
