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Taxing the Poor

Doing Damage to the Truly Disadvantaged

Taxing the Poor( )
Author: Newman, Katherine S.
O'Brien, Rourke
Series title:Wildavsky Forum Ser.
ISBN:978-0-520-26967-5
Publication Date:Feb 2011
Publisher:University of California Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $29.95
Book Description:

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...
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Book Details
Pages:264
Detailed Subjects: Social Science / Poverty & Homelessness
Business & Economics / Taxation / General
Social Science / Sociology / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 8.25 x 0.7 Inches
Book Weight:0.7 Pounds



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