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COMMISSION ON INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. Weinstock; Lennon; Garretson; Walsh, Chairman; Commons; Ballard; Delano; Mrs. Harriman. Harris & Ewing, Photographer 1913 (Library of Congress Prints & Photographs Division Washington, D.C.)Beverly Gage, associate professor of 20th-century U.S. history at Yale University, has a fascinating post at Slate about the Commission on Industrial Relations created by President William Howard [...]
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The Senate budget committee held a hearing last week on income inequality, discussing some graphs that will make you shake your head in shame:
As Mother Jones notes, "The 1 percent hasn't controlled such a large share of the economy since the eve of the Great Depression." Dance our worries away, girls!
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(Steven Hayward) Oh why not? Courtesy of Megan McArdle at The Atlantic and a mischievous suggestion from Glenn Reynolds is the chart below showing that the trend of income inequality has reversed sharply the last few years. And what do you know, the shape of the graph does indeed look a lot like the shape of the various global temperature graphs that show a halt in warming over the last decade or
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In another sign that Democrats have embraced income inequality as a cause célèbre, the Senate Budget Committee held a hearing on the subject today. The committee's ranking Republican, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, managed to look concerned during two hours of testimony about the kneecapping of the Middle Class—not that it should have been all that difficult. Here are some of the charts that witnesses presented:
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OECD: Redistribution less efficient However, a report by the OECD says Canada's wealth redistribution is behind the curve. Prior to the mid-1990s, 70 per cent of the rise in income inequality was offset by the tax-benefit system, but that has since fallen ...
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Financial guru Suze Orman's arsenal of free or inexpensive advice has been her own way of sticking it to The Man. And she sounded optimistic about what President Obama might have planned for a second term. Orman told reporters during a Tuesday ...
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Martin Johnston at NZ Herald reports: Some Auckland surgeons are being paid more than $6000 for a day’s work at a public hospital. My God. They are part of the 1% scum. The Waitemata District Health Board scheme has divided doctors over concerns that the surgeons involved can earn nearly four times as much as [...]
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TaxProf Blog takes note of a report from the Tax Foundation that finds that since the economic downturn of 2007-2009 the percent of income earned by the top 1% of income earners has returned to the level that it was during the Clinton Administration:
The most recent published studies on income inequality use 2006 or 2007 [...]
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Paul Barber (BCA, MTh) is Policy Advisor with the NZ Council of Christian Social Services (NZCCSS) and is involved with the networking, support, research and policy analysis for the social services of the churches. NZCCSS agencies work with those most ...
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- What Moral Philosophy Tells Us About Income Inequality (api.bing.com)
Jared Bernstein of the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities noted the limits of tax-based redistribution, especially in the current political environment. Nevertheless, Bernstein, a former economic adviser to Vice President Joe Biden ...
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