How has federal spending changed?
This graph represents the level of expenditure on the “safety net” of the most deprived (monetary allowances equivalent to RSA or RMI, federal assistance programs, etc.), and expenditure related to the police, prisons and justice, from 1960 to 2018 as a percentage of national income.
Draw the rest of the curve from this date and or post it.
Social safety net spending
Police, prison and justice expenses
source: The Triumph of injustice. Wealth, tax evasion and democracy, by Emmanuel Saez and Gabriel Zucman, Seuil, 2020, 304 pages.
Gabriel Zucman: “The quantity of people imprisoned is an American specificity. The United States has the highest incarceration rate in the world. This high rate of incarceration has increased spending at the federal level; at the same time, the safety net for the poorest households – spending on monetary allowances, equivalent to active solidarity income (RSA) or the allowance for disabled adults (AAH) – already weak, fell further. "
The monetary allocation system was thoroughly reformed under the presidency of Bill Clinton (1993-2001). It then existed "Unconditional aid such as the minimum insertion income (RMI) or the RSA which have been transformed into conditional aid ", explains Gabriel Zucman. So, "For adults without children who are long-term unemployed for example, there is no help".