Catherine Rampell has a piece at the Washington Post titled “Want to fight poverty? Expand access to contraception.” As you can probably guess, the poverty solution here is to try to nudge women with low market incomes away from having families, a troubling strategy that rich folks have been eager to push in one form or another for… Continue reading Want to Fight Poverty? Expand Welfare. Always Expand Welfare.
Author: Matt Bruenig
Nobody Is On Twitter
Terrell Jermaine Starr has a piece at the Washington Post titled “On Twitter, Bernie Sanders’s supporters are becoming one of his biggest problems.” In it, he argues “the social media battles have shown that Sanders’s supporters also have become a major hurdle for the candidate in building a positive image with the black electorate.” As… Continue reading Nobody Is On Twitter
Lies About Corbyn from the Capitalist Hyena Press
The media is in a tizzy over new UK Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Given the ideological composition of the press, this is understandable. Corbyn is himself a fairly far left man while the reporting and commenting class scarcely stray beyond center-left respectability. In the process of projecting their anger and alarm at his success,… Continue reading Lies About Corbyn from the Capitalist Hyena Press
Technical details for my analysis of 2014 poverty data
I use eight categories of people to break down the poverty data. They are defined as follows: Children — Ages 0-17. Elderly — Ages 65+. Disabled — Either 1) had one of the serious disabilities the Census tracks (PRDISFLG = 1), 2) was out of the labor force for the entire year because of an… Continue reading Technical details for my analysis of 2014 poverty data
How to Tax and Spend 0% of GDP and 100% of GDP Without Affecting Anything
Let’s say I wanted to maintain the status quo distribution and all of the incentives related to it. But I also wanted to do it in a way that cut the tax level to 0% of GDP or 100% of GDP. How would I do that? It’s simple. 0% of GDP Right now the government… Continue reading How to Tax and Spend 0% of GDP and 100% of GDP Without Affecting Anything