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Tag Archives: Low-Income Workers
The New America Foundation: Lara Burt: TANF & Teachers: How Current Policies Are Keeping Single Mothers Down and Out of School
Source:The New Democrat It’s not that TANF or the Temporary Assistance For Needy Families, hasn’t succeed, because it has. Take away the Great Recession and we’re not looking at a twenty-percent poverty rate today, because under TANF low-income parents are … Continue reading
Posted in New America Foundation, The New Democrat
Tagged Economic Development, Economic Freedom, Economic Liberalism, Education, Job Training, Lara Burt, Liberalism, Low-Income Workers, Low-Skilled Adults, Middle Class, Poverty in America, Public Assistance, Ron Haskins, TANF, Welfare, Welfare Reform, Welfare to Work
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AEI Ideas: James Pethokoukis- Ben Carson’s Flat Tax Plan Represents Many of The Least Helpful Impulses in GOP Tax Policy
Source: This piece was originally posted at The New Democrat: AEI Ideas: James Pethokoukis- Ben Carson’s Flat Tax Plan Represents Many of The Least Helpful Impulses in GOP Tax Policy During really the last six years or so of the … Continue reading
The Nation: Rebecca Vallas & Melissa Boteach: Paul Ryan Just Accidentally Made a Great Case For Raising The Minimum Wage
Source:The New Democrat Am I missing something here, or has The Nation come back down to Planet Earth and finally just left Planet Utopia where there’s no such thing as war, poverty, bigotry, everything that most people see as bad? … Continue reading
Posted in Congress, The New Democrat
Tagged 114th Congress, 2015, America, House Republicans, Low-Income Workers, Low-Skilled Workers, Melissa Boteach, Minimum Wage, Paul Ryan, Poverty, Poverty in America, Public Assistance, Rebecca Vallas, Speaker Paul Ryan, U.S. Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, United States, Welfare Reform, Welfare to Work, Wisconsin
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Eldridge Edison: U.S. Representative Bernie Sanders: On The Earned Income Tax Credit (1993)
Source:The New Democrat Anyone who actually interested in helping to move people out of poverty in America would be in favor of the Earned Income Tax Credit. Unless you’re an Ayn Randian who says that government has no role in … Continue reading
Posted in Bernie Sanders, The New Democrat
Tagged 103rd Congress, 1993, 1993 Budget Bill, America, Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton, Congressional Progressive Caucus, Democratic Socialists, Earned Income Tax Credit, Far Left, Low-Income Workers, Low-Skilled Workers, New Left, Poverty in America, The 1990s, The White House, U.S. Congress, U.S. House of Representatives, United States, Vermont, Washington, Washington DC, Welfare Reform, Welfare to Work
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Economist’s View: Alan Krueger: The Minimum Wage: How Much is Too Much?
Source:The New Democrat Good question, because how is a job where the employee bags groceries, rings up groceries, makes cheeseburgers, cleans up after people, takes orders from customers, worth. Not as much as the person who hires those people, or … Continue reading
Posted in New Left, The New Democrat
Tagged 2015, Alan Krueger, America, Center Right, Classical Liberalism, Classical Liberals, Economic Freedom, Education, Employee Compensation, Employers, Entry-Level Workers, Individual Freedom, Job Training, Liberalism, Liberals, Low-Income Workers, Low-Skilled Workers, Low-Wage Workers, Minimum Wage, Personal Responsibility, Poverty in America, Robert Reich, United States
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Brookings Institution: Ron Haskins: $2 a Day, A More Complete Picture
Source:The New Democrat I agree with Ron Haskins here that when today’s Progressives say that Americans in poverty only live on $2 a day, they tend to leave out things like public housing, food assistance, Medicaid to use as examples. … Continue reading
Posted in Brookings, The New Democrat
Tagged 2015, America, Brookings, Brookings Institution, Education, Job Training, Low-Income, Low-Income Workers, Low-Skilled, Low-Skilled Workers, Poverty, Poverty in America, Public Assistance, Ron Haskins, Safety Net, Social Insurance, United States, Washington, Washington DC, Welfare, Welfare to Work
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Center on Budget & Policy Priorities: Judith Solomon: Medicaid at 50: A Critical and Evolving Pillar to U.S. Health Care
The New Democrat Medicaid, is a very important health insurance program for people in poverty including the working poor, but also people who are disabled and senior citizens. The fact that it is also for seniors, I believe shows a … Continue reading
Posted in LBJ Presidency, The New Democrat
Tagged 1965, 89th Congress, Center Left, Corporate Welfare, Democratic Party, Great Society, Health Care, Health Insurance, Judith Solomon, Low-Income Workers, Low-Skilled Workers, Lyndon Johnson, Medicaid, Medicaid at 50, Payroll Taxes, Poverty in America, Progressive Democrats, Progressives, Progressivism, Texas, The 1960s, U.S. Congress, U.S. Senate, Washington, Washington DC, Working Poor
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The Baseline Scenario: James Kwak: ‘Friedrich Hayek Supported a Guaranteed Minimum Income’
“We shall again take for granted the availability of a system of public relief which provides a uniform minimum for all instances of proved need, so that no member of the community need be in want of food or … Continue reading
Posted in New Left
Tagged 2015, America, Big Government, Collectivism, Collectivists, Democratic Socialism, Democratic Socialists, Far Left, Friedrich Hayek, Guaranteed Basic Income, James Kwak, Low-Income Workers, Low-Skilled Workers, Negative Income Tax, New Left, Nick Gillespie, Poverty in America, Public Assistance, Reason, Reason Magazine, Road to Serfdom, Socialism, Socialists, United States, Welfare State, Working in Poverty
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C-SPAN: President Bill Clinton’s 1996 Welfare Reform Press Statement
Source: C-SPAN: President Bill Clinton’s 1996 Welfare Reform Press Statement The 1996 Welfare to Work Law, I believe is the best part of the Clinton Presidency. Along with moving the Democratic Party back to the Center-Left and making it a national … Continue reading
Posted in WJC Presidency
Tagged 1996 Welfare to Work Law, Bill Clinton, Bill Clinton Administration, Bill Clinton Presidency, Economic Freedom, Education, Job Training, Liberalism, Low-Income Workers, Low-Skilled Workers, Poverty in America, President Bill Clinton, Public Assistance, Welfare Reform, Welfare to Work
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VOA News: Janet Weinstein- Activists: ‘Higher US Minimum Wage Still Not High Enough’
Source:VOA News: Janet Weinstein- Activists: ‘Higher US Minimum Wage Still Not High Enough’ The so-called conservative economist in this piece, said something that is simply false and perhaps even insulting to minimum wage workers, that I have to correct, or … Continue reading
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