Redistribution of Wealth in America
The United States has a long history of redistribution of wealth for the social good, and the real debate about it needs to focus on the levels at which it should kick in, an economist writes.
View ArticleContraceptive Economics
Public support for effective contraception choices makes good economic sense, by a cost-benefit analysis of the sort Republicans otherwise embrace, an economist writes.
View ArticleTax Cuts for Job Creators
Cutting taxes for the lower 95 percent of the population will stimulate economic growth and job creation far more than cutting taxes for the top 5 percent, two economists assert.
View ArticleJobless Benefits as an Antipoverty Program
Last year unemployment insurance kept 2.3 million people above the official poverty line, including 620,000 who were children living with a family member who received benefits.
View ArticlePoverty Should Have Risen
That poverty did not increase during the recession demonstrates that government policies were providing too much help and taking away incentives to work, an economist writes.
View ArticleThe Microeconomics of Poverty Since 2007
Available data shows clearly that benefits that help people in poverty undercut incentives for them to seek work, an economist writes.
View ArticleAusterity for Posterity
An economist asks why pro-family voices do not offer more support for public spending to benefit parents and children.
View ArticleHow to Raise Both Take-Home Pay and Tax Fairness
Expanding the Earned Income Tax Credit to childless adult workers would help pull more people out of poverty and add tax fairness, an economist writes.
View ArticleHow Aid to the Poor Is Also an Investment
Aid to the poor may seem like classic near-term consumption boosters, yet they have have impacts that last into adulthood for children whose families receive them, an economist writes.
View ArticleQ. and A.: A Development Expert on Narrowing Inequality
An interview with Branko Milanovic of the City University of New York, a longtime development expert at the World Bank, on how globalization has reduced income inequality between nations.
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