Rights and Deprivation Author:Lesley A. Jacobs Many welfare state programs redistribute resources from some citizens to others. This book discusses whether such a redistribution can be justified by a theory of moral rights. Lesley Jacobs maintains that while many orthodox rights-based defenses of state welfare are misconceived, it is nevertheless possible to defend programs such as universal... more » access to health care and social security on the grounds that they are required to fulfill the moral rights of individual citizens.« less