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Insightful weekly commentary on news & current events from economist Antony Davies and political scientist James R. Harrigan.
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What You Should Know About Poverty in America
June 14, 2017
Poverty is a big deal – it affects about 41 million people in the United States every year – yet the federal government spends a huge amount of money to end poverty. So much of the government’s welfare spending gets eaten up by bureaucracy, conflicting programs, and politicians presuming they know how people should spend their own money. Obviously, this isn’t working.
This week on Words and Numbers, Antony Davies and James R. Harrigan delve into how people can really become less poor and what that means for society and the government.
Show Notes
- Measuring Poverty Using Both Income and Wealth: An Empirical Comparison of Multidimensional Approaches Using Data for the US and Spain
- The American Welfare State: How We Spend Nearly $1 Trillion a Year Fighting Poverty – and Fail
- No, We Don't Need to Spend $1 Trillion on Welfare Each Year
- The Right Amount of Government
- The Basic Income Guarantee: Simplicity, But at What Cost?
- The Dead Zone: The Implicit Marginal Tax Rate
- Milton Friedman on the Negative Income Tax
- Sorry CNN and David Wheeler, But a "Basic Income" Wouldn't End Poverty
- United States Senate Committee on the Budget
- Income and Poverty in the United States: 2015
- What Are the Poverty Thresholds Today?
- Number in Poverty and Poverty Rate: 1959 to 2015
- US Poverty Threshold
- Official Poverty Measure Masks Gains Made over Last 50 Years
