Author: Matt Bruenig
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What is Class?
Many use it. Few define it. The result is a discursive mess.
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The Bernie Sanders AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Proposal
Do the critics have any worthwhile points?
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For the Middle Class, US Labor Taxes Are Similar to Nordic Labor Taxes
To analyze across countries, you need to normalize the systems.
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What Is the Current US Healthcare Situation?
A useful primer ahead of the 2028 policy primary.
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Has the Position of College Graduates Worsened?
This calls for some relative analysis.
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A Right to Full-Time Scheduling
A policy for pushing back against the scourge of involuntary part-time jobs.
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What Does the Census Data Say About "The Lost Generation"
Savage appears wrong, but the reality is potentially bleaker.
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Why Do People Feel Like They Are Falling Behind?
A different way of understanding arguments about single-income mid-century families.
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Do Predistribution People Know How to Read?
How many times will they fall for the same exact measurement tricks?
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Does Europe Use Market Incomes to Achieve Equality?
No.
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The Simple Math of Poverty
Poverty is just not as exciting as people want it to be.
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Bad Arguments Against Free Buses
The transit world has talked itself into a nonsense understanding of revenue tradeoffs.
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Abundance Has a Theory of Power
I don't know why this is being so obfuscated.
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Is There Really an Epidemic of Workless Medicaid Recipients?
A deep dive into the Survey of Income and Program Participation.
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Success Sequence Followers Do Not Follow the Success Sequence
More on this fake thing.
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The Employment of Young Men
The flimsiest of possible excuses for cutting Medicaid.
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The Abundance Agenda
A review.
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How Many People Live Paycheck to Paycheck?
A thrillingly ambiguous debate.
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Creating an Alaska-Style Permanent Fund in Washington State
Alaska shows that states can tackle wealth inequality if they really want to.
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Providing Family Benefits in Washington State
How states can create a system of social democratic family benefits.
