Author: Matt Bruenig
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Fining Corporations That Pollute Carbon Is Quite Popular
Over two-thirds of Americans with an opinion support a carbon fine.
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The US Welfare State Cut Poverty by Two-Thirds in 2018
Poverty is easy to fix. Just keep building the welfare state.
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Sanders Is Right: 50 Million Lose Their Insurance Each Year
The claim is both true literally and even non-literally in the spirit of things.
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Medicare for All Would Cut Poverty by Over 20 Percent
Poor families spend 22 percent of their income on out-of-pocket medical expenses.
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The UBI Already Exists. It Is Just Unevenly Distributed.
Capitial's share provides more than enough money to finance a universal basic income.
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Labour's Inclusive Ownership Funds Should Be Fine
The Financial Times forecasts doom and gloom where there isn't any.
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Situating Basic Income and Job Guarantee in the Welfare State
These are mostly unemployment benefit schemes, but not very good ones.
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Sanders Endorses "Green TVA" Approach to Green New Deal
Sanders proposes a massive build out of publicly owned clean energy production.
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The Heartland Institute Put Out a Very Stupid M4A Analysis
Justin Haskins's analysis overstates the net cost of M4A by 200 percent.
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Health Insurance Churn in the US Is a Nightmare
People lose their health insurance constantly with little choice over the matter.
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Bidencare System Will Kill 125,000 Through Uninsurance
The body count of 3 percent uninsurance is staggering. Insurance must be universal.
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50 Million Adults Are Uninsured Every Single Year
About 1 in 4 adults churn out of insurance at some point every year.
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Low Income People Have More Student Debt Than Realized
The data everyone is using is simply not good data for these purposes.
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The Student Debt Forgiveness Muddle Continues
The precise purpose of forgiveness remains weirdly elusive.
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Top 1% Up $21 Trillion. Bottom 50% Down $900 Billion.
America is a hideously unequal place with a large propertyless underclass.
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The LIFT+ Credit Cuts Poverty by 45 Percent
The LIFT+ credit is 2.5x as effective as Harris's LIFT credit.
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Rashida Tlaib Breaks the Curse of the Trapezoid
It is actually good to include the poor in the welfare state.
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The Difficulty of Using the Firm in Socialist Policy
Firm boundaries are arbitrary, which complicates firm-based socialism.
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Bernie Sanders Gives the Nod to Funds Socialism
A Meidner plan for America. Here we go. Here we fucking go!
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The Unequal Distribution of Nonworkers Across Families
Equalizing the dependency burden is key to economic equality.