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Showing posts with label transfer payments. Show all posts
Showing posts with label transfer payments. Show all posts
Monday, December 12, 2016

Bill Mitchell — Cash transfers are not squandered on booze but do not replace the need for jobs

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Some years ago I was asked to design a framework for the implementation of minimum wage system in South Africa as part of an ILO project my...
Thursday, May 29, 2014

Marshall Steinbaum — Piketty versus Hassett: a primer on after-tax income and inequality

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In short, income-redistribution policies failed to counteract growing income stratification over the past four decades. What’s more, these...
Thursday, March 27, 2014

Atif Mian and Amir Sufi — Why the Income Distribution Matters for Macroeconomics

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Obvious to everyone but conventional economists. (See Manfred's comment on March 27, 2014 at 11:01) House of Debt Why the Income Di...
Thursday, November 21, 2013

"INFRASTRUCTURE" Spending As A Transfer Payment? Depends on Whether It's Social or Physical Infrastructure

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(Commentary by Roger Erickson) What are Transfer Payments , and why are they off-budget? Well, just because. Yes, our country is pretty a...
Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Robert Oak — Over 15% of America was on Food Stamps in April 2013

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Lately there have been claims from some in the press and Congress that SNAP, the food stamp program is ripe with fraud and abuse. This is ...
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Rep. Alan Grayson — Walmart "the largest recipient of public aid in the country"

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Representative-elect Alan Grayson (D-FL) said Monday that he will put mega-retailer Walmart squarely in his sights during the next Congress...
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