from Lars Syll Economists have sometimes misled us with their belief that it is their job to tell “white lies” to scare the population into “behaving themselves.” We think that is the wrong approach. This book trusts you, the reader, with that truth. We trust you to do what you can to spread the truth and to hold policymakers accountable. The truth is that government faces political constraints. It faces resource constraints. It faces technological constraints. But it does not, cannot,...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]We often talk about poverty and people living in poverty as measured by the government, Then, we set policy with regards to them. We never quite realize the impact of the programs on the people on the receiving end. A brief recital of facts and figures in charts. I also do not believe we get […] The post A Measure of Poverty in the United States appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]Robert Kutner has a paywalled article in The New York Review of Books about the history of free trade and the efforts since Trump’s first term to impose tariffs, particularly on China, beginning with the first Trump Administration. “Free trade ideology once aligned with America’s economic and security interests. After World War II, open markets […] The post The death of free trade? appeared first on Angry Bear.

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[unable to retrieve full-text content]Elon Musk Was Behind Effort To Gaslight Americans Into Believing Donald Trump Supports Reproductive Rights, Above the Law In the waning days of the 2024 presidential election, a curious political action committee, named after the late Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, ran ads in support of Donald Trump. It, bizarrely, claimed RBG and Trump were […] The post Believing Donald Trump Supports Reproductive Rights appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]What state government were to do for their citizens they began doing in 2010 with the expansion of healthcare in the form of Medicaid. The 2010 Affordable Care Act encouraged states to expand Medicaid programs to cover more low-income Americans who did not get health insurance through their jobs. Forty states and the District of […] The post Fear of Losing Medicaid and the ACA Healthcare When Trump Takes Office appeared first on Angry Bear.

 Στα πλαίσια των σεμιναρίων του Τμήματος Κοινωνικής Πολιτικής που διοργανώνει το Εργαστήριο Κοινωνικής Πολιτικής (ΕΚοιΠ – https://socpollab.panteion.gr/) την Τετάρτη 11 Δεκεμβρίου 2024 (18:00-21:00) ο Σταύρος Μαυρουδέας (Καθηγητής, Τμ. Κοινωνικής Πολιτικής, Πάντειο Πανεπιστήμιο) θα παρουσιάσει εισήγησε με θέμα «Η έννοια της δομικής αλλαγής στα διαφορετικά ρεύματα της οικονομικής σκέψης και στην τρέχουσα οικονομική πολιτική». Τα σεμινάρια του ΕΚοιΠ είναι ανοικτά και διεξάγονται στην...

[unable to retrieve full-text content] – by New Deal democrat My “Weekly Indicators” post is up at Seeking Alpha. This week whipsawed the data that was heavily influenced by Thanksgiving week.  The tone of the short leading and coincident data remains positive. The negativity of much of the long leading data is becoming more problematic. As usual, clicking over and reading […] The post New Deal Democrats Weekly Indicators December 2-6 appeared first on...

[unable to retrieve full-text content]November jobs report: the expected monthly rebound masks deeper declining trends  – by New Deal democrat To understand this month’s jobs report, let’s start with last month’s, where I wrote that “there were some signs of real weakness in this report that do not appear to be hurricane-related. But Hurricane Milton, as well as the […] The post Monthly Rebound Masks Deeper Declining Trends appeared first on Angry Bear.

[unable to retrieve full-text content]I forgot, today is December 7th, The day in 1941, the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in a surprise and unexpected attack. As many other men did, my dad served in the military onboard a destroyer escort. I can only imagine what he and others went through even though I am ex-military myself. Prof. Heather’s message […] The post The Day Of . . . appeared first on Angry Bear.