ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the assumptions and decisions made to calculate the monetary resources freed by eliminating welfare and poverty programs. It addresses how the money will be employed to create jobs. The chapter provides a different direction for helping many of the poor, a departure from the hodgepodge of income transfer programs to a single guaranteed jobs and income program. Both Republican and democratic candidates favor the earned income tax credit (EITC), as a program that supports the working poor yet is more than just a handout. Public–private partnerships actually tend to perform better than the usual publicly funded projects. They tend to gain bipartisan support and allow both nonprofits and private businesses alike to work toward the goals set by the government. With welfare, first one ran programs and did research that proved that work-first—not education and training—was the best first strike in moving people off dependency and into employment.
