Income Security: Changing Needs, Changing Means

This volume, comprised of papers given by IRPP, presents a variety of perspectives on the problems and potential solutions for reform in one of the most challenging areas of social policy, namely income security programs for the employable unemployed. Academics and policy makers from Canada as well as the United States and Sweden review the theoretical and practical issues that surround the role governments play in enhancing the self-sufficiency and well-being of the most needy in society.