Showing posts with label social welfare policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label social welfare policy. Show all posts
Sunday, July 5, 2026

Income Inequality 1826-2026

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Many posts have discussed economi c and educationa l inequality .  Bruce Mehlman: Individual incomes have increased exponentially but n...
Saturday, April 4, 2026

Federal Spending By Age

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Many posts  have  discussed   Social Security  and  Medicare . Penn Wharton Budget Model: In Fiscal Year 2025, federal outlays totaled over...
Tuesday, February 17, 2026

Immigrants, the Budget, and Social Security

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Many   posts  have  discussed   immigration .   David J. Bier, Michael Howard, and Julián Salazar at Cato: This paper updates a model of the...
Sunday, November 16, 2025

SNAP Demographics

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Many Americans, including Republicans, depend on federal services and assistance.  Drew DeSilver at Pew : The most comprehensive data source...
Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Cash Payments and Child Development

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A number of  posts  have dealt with  p overty . Kimberly Noble, et al.,  "The Effect of a Monthly Unconditional Cash Transfer on Childr...
Thursday, May 8, 2025

Issue Polarization

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  Many posts  have  discussed   partisan polarization . Andrew Daniller at Pew: Republicans and Democrats continue to be far apart when it ...
Tuesday, October 1, 2024

Reliance on Government Support

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Aaron Zitner, Jon Kamp and Brian McGill at WSJ: Americans’ reliance on government support is soaring, driven by programs such as Social Secu...
Sunday, August 6, 2023

Progressivity

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Timothy Vermeer et al. at the Tax Foundation : The U.S. system of taxes and transfers is highly progressive . Measuring comprehensive incom...
Saturday, August 5, 2023

Ending Poverty in California?

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A number of posts have dealt with homelessness . The problem is highly visible in California . Because of its high cost of housing , the...
Saturday, May 14, 2022

Tariffs and Regs Helped Create the Baby Formula Shortage

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 WSJ Editorial: Last year Abbott accounted for 42% of the U.S. formula market, about 95% of which is produced domestically. There are only...
Saturday, February 12, 2022

The Tragedy of the Projects

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Many posts  have  discussed  the  unanticipated   consequences  of  public policy .  Howard Husock at Reason : The clearance of the thriving...
Wednesday, January 26, 2022

Study Casts Doubt on Value of Pre-K

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  Effects of a statewide pre-kindergarten program on children’s achievement and behavior through sixth grade. © Request Permissions Durkin, ...
Wednesday, October 13, 2021

COVID and Caregiving

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Tina Reed at Axios Vitals : American families shouldered an enormous burden caring for family members even before the pandemic , and a short...
Friday, July 30, 2021

Poverty Plummets

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At the Urban Institute, Laura WheatonLinda GiannarelliIlham Dehry have a report titled "2021 Poverty Projections: Assessing the Impact ...
Tuesday, January 5, 2021

Charity, Social Insurance, and Veterans

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Rebecca Burgess at Law and Liberty: The 1917 veterans benefits system is the system that the Department of Veterans Affairs uses today, gr...
Saturday, December 19, 2020

State Government Finance

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  Many posts have discussed state government and public financ e. #DYK that in 2019, public welfare exceeded education as the largest st...
Monday, October 26, 2020

Largest US Employer

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 From the Census: Which industry had the highest employment and annual payroll in 2018? According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s County Busines...
Thursday, May 28, 2020

Pandemic Casualty: Social Security

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Social Security will go bust much sooner than officials previously reckoned.  Caitlin Emma at Politico: There's now an acceleration ...
Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Immigration, the Economy, and the Federal Budget

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From CBO: About 47 million people living in the United States in 2018 were born in other countries . Roughly three-quarters of those people...
Tuesday, December 17, 2019

Paid Parental Leave: US as Outlier

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The United States has the world's highest share of children living in single-parent families.   It has another distinction, too.   From ...