Children in one-parent homes much more likely to be living in poverty h/t @crampell http://t.co/pDGllwdR05 pic.twitter.com/HdvOmDe8XU
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Child poverty and single parent households in the USA
15 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, single parenthood
Super-Economy: The rich in Europe are poor.
15 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: Euroland, European Union, inequality and poverty
The missing productivity puzzle and middle-class stagnation
14 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in poverty and inequality Tags: middle class stagnation
Blacks Must Confront Reality About Racial Discrimination
11 Jan 2015 1 Comment
in applied welfare economics, discrimination, labour economics, poverty and inequality Tags: family demographics, racial discrminaition
Dear Dr Sharples, please help us raise the game for ALL kids
09 Jan 2015 Leave a comment
in economics of education, human capital, poverty and inequality, survivor principle Tags: charter schools, School choice
The claim made in the letter to the Co-leader of the Maori party before the charter schools bill was passed by the New Zealand Parliament was that charter schools is “An unproven experiment is not the answer.”
Experiments are pointless if you already know the answer.
The answer is charter schools – An experiment that has proven to be immensely popular among minority parents in the USA.
Charter schools are growing fastest in New Orleans, Washington DC and Detroit – all predominately black cities with terrible public school systems.
The predominately black electorates want to experiment with something that might be better than the existing system that has failed them.
Dear Dr Sharples,
Increasing achievement for Maori and Pasifika students is of great importance. The issue is at the forefront of many educators’ and parents’ minds, thanks to the charter schools debate, and for that and that alone I am grateful charters were set before us as an option.
But they are not the answer. Charters have been shown even in the best of countries, such as Sweden, to increase inequality. It is telling that even normally right-leaning bodies such as the Maxim Institute and SNS have spoken out against charters being the answer. SNS are a business think tank and said charters “had increased segregation and may not have improved educational standards at all” in Sweden. In England it is even worse, and worse still in the USA.
It is far more important that we as a country look to improving schools for all children and that we focus very…
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The rise of the working rich among the top 0.1% in the USA
19 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, economic history, entrepreneurship, politics - USA, poverty and inequality
Source: “Income Inequality in the United States, 1913-1998” with Thomas Piketty, Quarterly Journal of Economics, 118(1), 2003, 1-39
(Tables and Figures Updated to 2012 in Excel format, September 2013) via Chad Jones
Before 1940, most of the income of the top 0.1% of income earners in the USA was income from investments.
By the end of the 20th century, the top 0.1% were earning their incomes as wages and salaries, business incomes and capital gains. Very little of that income of the top 0.1% was in the form of passive income from capital. The top 0.1% of the USA are now working rich – entrepreneurs.
Was Moynihan, right? The role of prospective success in assortative mating in family poverty
19 Dec 2014 1 Comment
The unbelievable rise of single motherhood in America over the last 50 years – The Washington Post
19 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: causes of poverty, single parenthood
via The unbelievable rise of single motherhood in America over the last 50 years – The Washington Post.
EITC is better than the Minimum Wage
15 Dec 2014 Leave a comment
in applied welfare economics, labour economics, liberalism, minimum wage, poverty and inequality Tags: earned income tax credit, family tax credits, in-work tax credits, minimum wage, negative income tax, poverty and inequality
Is it really too hard for people to bother to feed their kids? – Whale Oil Beef Hooked
13 Dec 2014 1 Comment
in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, labour economics, liberalism, poverty and inequality Tags: causes of poverty, inequality and poverty, school breakfast programmes, The Great Fact
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