Tag: Welfare
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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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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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Rep. Tlaib's Economic Dignity for All Agenda Would Bring Economic Security for Millions
The agenda would lower poverty by 42% and child poverty by two-thirds.
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Crunching the Numbers on Predistribution
Merely including the elderly flips the relative importance of redistribution.
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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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Health Care Administration Wastes Half a Trillion Dollars Every Year
Health insurers are actually very bad.
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Eliminating Marriage Penalties Through Universalism
The social democratic welfare state wins again.
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A New Way to Support Disabled Americans
America’s disability programs require an extensive overhaul. American Disability Compensation offers a comprehensive solution.
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The Comedy of the Winter Fuel Payment Means Test
Means testing insanity in the United Kingdom.
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Quick Reaction to Harris Policy Proposals
Some good. Some bad. A lot of meh.
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Biden Should Propose a National Prescription Drug Program
Medicare Part D for All!
