People's Policy Project

Avoiding Climate Change Without Sinking the Poor

December 11, 2018

Some notes on carbon taxes and distributive justice.
Welfare Benefit Types: Flat, Means-Tested, Trapezoid, and So on

December 4, 2018

Welfare benefits come in so many lovely varieties.
A Child Allowance Would Be Very Effective at Poverty Reduction

November 29, 2018

It beats other basic income approaches on a per-dollar basis.
Important Not to Confuse Monopoly and Wealth Inequality

November 27, 2018

Monopoly and wealth inequality are somewhat different things.
Various Measures of the Distribution of Student Debt

November 19, 2018

The shape of student debt is very sensitive to measurement.

Tackling Inequality Through the Social Ownership of Capital

August 28, 2018

A detailed proposal for the creation of a dividend-paying social wealth fund.
Prisoners Should be Allowed to Vote. Here Is How to Do It.

May 8, 2018

Universal suffrage should mean absolutely everyone.
A Plan to Solve the Housing Crisis Through Social Housing

April 5, 2018

Cities should expand their housing stock while avoiding luxury developments.
Mass Incarceration: New Jim Crow, Class War, or Both?

January 30, 2018

Class appears to explain the majority of racial disparity in incarceration.
Destruction Of Black Wealth During The Obama Presidency

December 7, 2017

The handling of the Great Recession dramatically reduced black wealth.

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