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Monday, November 18, 2013

Housing, Poverty, Labor

Housing
Poverty and Welfare

From 11/4:

The welfare tradeoff triangle:
What are the appropriate tradeoffs among the three principal goals of welfare—securing adequate benefits for needy children, providing incentives that induce desired behavior in welfare recipients, and keeping public costs within acceptable bounds? These goals are linked in a relationship that David Stockman (President Reagan’s budget director) christened the “iron triangle.” Government cannot change one element of the relationship without affecting the other two.


Miron - Poverty Rate/Spending (small)




Labor

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