Tag results for: Poverty
Opinion | How Welfare Left Americans Poorer
The Census Bureau released its 2021 income report Tuesday, and the political spin is that unprecedented pandemic transfer payments lifted millions out of poverty. It’s more accurate to...
Opinion | Income Equality, Not Inequality, Is the Problem
By Phil Gramm and John EarlyAug. 29, 2022 12:04 pm ETContrary to conventional wisdom, the most dramatic and consequential change in the distribution of income in America in...
Opinion | The Least Effective Minimum-Wage Hike
Raising the $2.13-an-hour floor for tipped employees would put waiters out of work without helping the poor.
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Opinion | Britain’s Net Zero Lesson for the U.S.
Soaring energy prices may send a third of the U.K. into poverty.
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Opinion | ‘Effective Altruism’ Is Neither
Silicon Valley’s latest craze: Raise taxes to support billionaires’ favored causes.
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Opinion | The High Cost of Free Money
Researchers gave cash to low-income people. It led them to spend more and work less.
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