This paper asks what governments in the EU Member States and some US states are doing to support workers on low wages. Using model family simulations, we assess the policy measures currently in place to guarantee an adequate disposable income to working families, taking into account minimum...

Preface / Evelyn Z. Brodkin and Gregory Marston -- Introduction -- Work and the welfare state / Evelyn Z. Brodkin -- Street-level organizations and the welfare state / Evelyn Z. Brodkin -- What's at issue: politics, policies, and jobs -- The American welfare state : two narratives / Michael...

1.Basic Income: What, why, and how? Introductory chapter -- 2.Defining Basic Income -- 3. ‘Unconditional’ and ‘universal’ -- 4. Basic Income and Basic Income schemes -- 5.Basic Income as the preserver and transformation of capitalism -- 6.The mode of delivery is important -- 7.Only for...