Why is Scandinavia so expensive? @AOC @BernieSanders
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by Jim Rose in Marxist economics, politics - USA Tags: taxation and entrepreneurship, taxation and investment, taxation and labour supply, welfare state
Free To Choose in Under 2 Minutes episode 4 – From Cradle to Grave
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by Jim Rose in business cycles, economic history, economics of bureaucracy, great depression, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, macroeconomics, Milton Friedman, monetarism, monetary economics, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, television, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: health insurance, social insurance, welfare state
POVERTY – Who’s to Blame? – The 2019 Hayek Memorial Lecture – Professor Bryan Caplan
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by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, development economics, economic history, economics of education, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, human capital, income redistribution, labour economics, labour supply, occupational choice, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, Public Choice, public economics, rentseeking, unemployment, welfare reform Tags: child poverty, family poverty, social insurance, welfare state
Down and out in America?
19 Dec 2018 Leave a comment
Friedman 18 II Welfare Debate
09 Jun 2018 Leave a comment
by Jim Rose in labour economics, labour supply, poverty and inequality, welfare reform Tags: social insurance, welfare state
How do workers put food on table when they drop out of the labour force after unemployment insurance cuts?
27 May 2018 Leave a comment
by Jim Rose in applied price theory, labour economics, labour supply, politics - USA, poverty and inequality, unemployment Tags: social insurance, unemployment insurance, welfare state
Down and out on the US welfare safety net
26 Mar 2018 Leave a comment
by Jim Rose in income redistribution, politics - USA, poverty and inequality Tags: social insurance, welfare state
What are the most progressive policies? Cutting bus fares!
30 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, poverty and inequality Tags: child poverty, family poverty, middle-class welfare, social insurance, welfare state
What are the most progressive policies? Under our definition (helps poor more than rich) cutting bus fares tops the list, with 66% of Brits believing it would do more to help the less well off (compared to 29% for train fare cuts) https://t.co/r5lK0o1rKW pic.twitter.com/KeuE1xP6Cm
— YouGov (@YouGov) January 30, 2018
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The Big Kahuna and little kahuna for all to see
07 Mar 2017 Leave a comment
by Jim Rose in fiscal policy, labour economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality, public economics Tags: social insurance, universal basic income, welfare state
Why no progress on the gender wage gap in @SenSanders’ favourite countries
02 Feb 2017 Leave a comment
Ralph Raico: The History of the Industrial Revolution and the Social Policies of Otto von Bismarck
21 Dec 2016 Leave a comment
by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, economic history Tags: welfare state
Latest cherry picking of homelessness data allegation is from @MaxRashbrooke
09 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
by Jim Rose in labour economics, politics - New Zealand, poverty and inequality Tags: homelessness, social insurance, social safety net, welfare state
I cherry picked data again by plotting it in full using the data labels and headings in the data tables at the original data source. I stand accused.
@LivingWageNZ but homelessness fallen too according to data trusted, cited by @NZGreens @nzlabour https://t.co/LvH8JjzgmC
— Jim Rose (@JimRose69872629) September 8, 2016
No it hasn't, it's increased acc to the official definition and Otago research
— Max Rashbrooke (@MaxRashbrooke) September 8, 2016
most of the 41000 homeless not even in emergency housinghttps://t.co/VphtzaLsdg
— Jim Rose (@JimRose69872629) September 8, 2016
Not only that, but the rate of increase is growing: getting worse faster
— Max Rashbrooke (@MaxRashbrooke) September 8, 2016
no. It fell according to official and Otago datahttps://t.co/LvH8JjzgmC
— Jim Rose (@JimRose69872629) September 8, 2016
You're 100% wrong: https://t.co/6rinueb7pn
— Max Rashbrooke (@MaxRashbrooke) September 8, 2016
para 2 @otago data on 'severely housing deprived' Only 10% of these living rough, in cars
— Jim Rose (@JimRose69872629) September 8, 2016
Yep but official definition of homelessness incl all, not just living rough.
— Max Rashbrooke (@MaxRashbrooke) September 8, 2016
In other words, you're cherry-picking. Ciao!
— Max Rashbrooke (@MaxRashbrooke) September 8, 2016
Max Rashbrooke is the latest to spit the dummy when reminded that the Otago report on homelessness actually was about the seriously housing deprived; their words, not mine.
UOW researcher Dr Kate Amore, from the Health Research Council-funded He Kainga Oranga/Housing and Health Research Programme, measured the “severely housing deprived” population.
Table 2 below is from the media release Rashbrooke suggested I read to enlighten myself as to what homelessness is and is not. I am going to commit my third strike at cherry picking with snap-shots of the tables from the original source. I am a recidivist cherry picker.
Source: 3 June 2016, Homelessness accelerates between censuses, News, University of Otago, New Zealand.
Labour, the Greens and Max Rashbrooke all conflated living with friends and family or in commercial accommodation with homelessness. Saying that serious housing deprivation has gone up is not much of a sound bite compared to claiming homelessness is up with the associated images of people living rough or in cars. Who is spinning, who is cherry picking and who just can’t handle the truth? Homelessness has not increased under the National party government.
A statistical definition of homelessness that includes 70% of data observations as people living with friends and relatives on a temporary basis is miles away from sleeping rough, in a car or emergency accommodation such as a shelter or refuge run by an NGO. But at one point the Otago study does include these vastly different social situations under the same heading
“If the homeless population were a hundred people, 70 are staying with extended family or friends in severely crowded houses, 20 are in a motel, boarding house or camping ground, and 10 are living on the street, in cars, or in other improvised dwellings. They all urgently need affordable housing.”
Definitions are supposed to clarify, not confuse but the Statistics New Zealand definition does
Homelessness is defined as a living situation where people with no other options to acquire safe and secure housing are: without shelter, in temporary accommodation, sharing accommodation with a household, or living in uninhabitable housing.
The Oxford dictionary definition of homeless is “ (Of a person) without a home, and therefore typically living on the streets”.
Homelessness is different from those living in a hotel paid for by WINZ pending rehousing. Sleeping in the streets, in a car or living in emergency accommodation and waiting in a hotel for social housing are separate policy problems.
Source: Severe housing deprivation in Aotearoa/New Zealand 2001-2013 Kate Amore (2016).
Some of the seriously housing deprived data from the Otago study show the system failing, such as sleeping rough or in a car. Other parts of the data shows the social safety net working when people are in a hotel or emergency accommodation pending a move to better quarters.
Including in the same definition of homelessness someone who is sleeping in the street or in a car with someone who is in the queue for social housing but booked into a hotel insults those who are homeless. This spin mixes up situations where the social safety net has failed with situations where it is working to help those down on their luck but perhaps not to our full satisfaction.
Poverty in America after 20 years of welfare reform
01 Sep 2016 Leave a comment
by Jim Rose in applied welfare economics, economic history, labour economics, politics - USA, welfare reform Tags: 1996 US welfare reforms, child poverty, family poverty, single mothers, single parents, social insurance, welfare state
Source: Did Welfare Reform Increase Extreme Poverty in the United States?
Source: Did Welfare Reform Increase Extreme Poverty in the United States?
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