#Welfare

Sanjukta Paul

sanjuktampaul

A barrier "to critical engagement with welfare economics as a framework is that it is frequently presented as rising above the very idea of a framework ... its models are

Daniel Buck

MrDanielBuck

I was asked recently “but what’s the limiting principle for school vouchers? Will be just send funds directly to people for police too?!”I’ve thought about that for a few weeks

elena

_berkenbosch

little thread here: some background, my father could be considered “upper class” by most people out there. we have never wanted, always been stable, and i’ve received a lot of

Prithviraj/Chaos Walking Advocate

prithviralta

I have been seeing a lot of reels and videos asking why printing more money can't solve poverty. To put it simply, money would just be worth less than before.

The War Father

TheWarFather

The macro-political reality of the 20th century (age of industrial military technology) favored systems that could consolidate the most military power, efficiently or notCommunist autocracies and capitalist democratic welfare states

Paolo G. Piacquadio

pgpiacquadio

The sum of concave transformations of utilities is a natural benchmark for policy analysis.But how compelling is it?@schokkaerterik and Tarroux survey research on its popularity.#econtwitterhttps://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-0311031

Mark Wallace

wallaceme

The evolution of Free School Meals into food vouchers happened - as so often in policy - by innovating in a crisis. But the history of the idea of delivering

John Manoochehri

jmanooch

And since I am here tweeting abt marginality, ok why not rehearse my theory of why econ growth is bounded for the novel (as far as I know) reasons of-

Arthur King (Reduce Reuse Rewild)

kirthurgan

As a vegan, I sign many petitions concerning cruelty against non humans. I am never sure how effective they are, but feel that if all they do is raise awareness,

Marie

Cheges12

All of the buy nothing groups in Detroit are in wealthy neighborhoods. Remember that the rich have their own social welfare programs that the poor are excluded from. When I

Foster youth speaking out

fosterkidvoices

Let's talk about the growing trend of being an "Instagram foster parent." Outside the child welfare world, the narrative surrounding foster care today has become overrun by the experiences of

Jordan Weissmann 🗽

JHWeissmann

For various reasons, I've found myself thinking a lot lately about how the entire American welfare state, or really lack thereof, is supposedly designed to encourage work, and yet our

James A. Robichaux

JamesRobichaux

Then you'd be unemploying plenty of military personnel and military-industrial complex workers, and you'd suddenly need many, many more dollars in survival checks.How does a former LABOR Secretary not know

Z.D.

zbigdu

The 19th century saw a global increase awerness of the land monopoly problem and an incredibly widespread support for fiscal (or even more direct) solution.By contrast, these themes were far

Brad Chattergoon

bradchattergoon

The problem is tipping. Put the true price of the delivery into the advertised price. Make it illegal to not do so. If companies don't want to adjust their price

The Cosmist Insurrection, Inc. ™

yungneocon

As far as I know, this person is an economist—they should know that GDP measures the volume of transactions, that welfare reducing marketization gets counted as GDP growth, & the

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