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‘Rising Disability Payments: Are Cuts to Workers’ Compensation Part of the...

Post originally published at Economist's View and syndicated at Economics Blogs. A summary of a new paper by Nick Buffie and Dean Baker (as they are careful to note, the results are preliminary):...

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‘A Strategy to Ignore Poverty’

Post originally published at Economist's View and syndicated at Economics Blogs. Eduardo Porter: A Strategy to Ignore Poverty, NY Times: Arizona, where I was born, in July became the first state to cut...

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‘A Shocking Rise in White Death Rates in Midlife’

Post originally published at Economist's View and syndicated at Economics Blogs. Paul Starr writing at The American Prospect: A Shocking Rise in White Death Rates in Midlife—and What It Says about...

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‘The Silver Lining of Unemployment Benefits’

Post originally published at Economist's View and syndicated at Economics Blogs. "Does making unemployment benefits more generous keep more people out of work? Ioana Marinescu shares her fascinating...

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James Poterba Interview

Post originally published at Economist's View and syndicated at Economics Blogs. James Poterba is interviewed by the Richmond Fed: ... EF: More recently, one of your areas of research has been...

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‘An Aging Society Is No Problem When Wages Rise’

Post originally published at Economist's View and syndicated at Economics Blogs. Dean Baker: An Aging Society Is No Problem When Wages Rise: Eduardo Porter discusses the question of whether retirees...

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‘Republican Candidates Turn to a Touchy Topic: Poverty’

Post originally published at Economist's View and syndicated at Economics Blogs. Eduardo Porter: Republican Candidates Turn to a Touchy Topic: Poverty: On Saturday ... six Republican hopefuls gathered...

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‘Instead of Working to Demonize Struggling Families…’

Post originally published at Economist's View and syndicated at Economics Blogs. This is from Congresswoman Gwen Moore's website: The Use of Political Stunts to Attack Social Programs: Today, Budget...

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‘False Beliefs about Food Stamps’

Post originally published at Economist's View and syndicated at Economics Blogs. Jayson Lusk: False Beliefs about Food Stamps: In this post on the University of Illinois Policy Matters blog, Craig...

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A ‘Second-Chance’ Society

Post originally published at Economist's View and syndicated at Economics Blogs. Social programs "need to be refitted for a polarized labor market hard-wired to generate inequalities": Why Canada...

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