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Half in Ten: Why Taking Disability into Account is Essential to Reducing Income Poverty and Expanding Economic Inclusion

Fremstad, Shawn - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

Disability is both a fundamental cause and consequence of income poverty. The income-poverty rate for persons with … about income poverty in the United States is largely silent about disability. This paper argues that we need to have a … broader view of what poverty is and also that disability must be taken into account in anti-poverty policy. …

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A Modern Framework for Measuring Poverty and Basic Economic Security

Fremstad, Shawn - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010

This report details how the dominant framework for understanding and measuring poverty in the United States has become a conservative one. The current U.S. approach to measuring poverty views poverty only in terms of having an extremely low level of annual income, and utilizes poverty thresholds...

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Working Families and Economic Insecurity in the States: The Role of Job Quality and Work Supports

Fremstad, Shawn; Ray, Rebecca; Rho, Hye Jin - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2008

Synthesizing previous CEPR research, this report uses a new methodology to better assess the economic security of working families. Rather than using the federal poverty line as a metric for a family's economic hardship, the authors of this report use basic family budgets and consider the role...

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Movin’ On Up: Reforming America’s Social Contract to Provide a Bridge to the Middle Class

Fremstad, Shawn; Ray, Rebecca; Schmitt, John; Chimienti, Liz - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2008

This research brief summarizes recent findings by the Center for Economic and Policy Research on job quality and workers' economic security. Using a rigorous methodology that improves on other more standard measures of economic security, we find that one in five Americans in working families...

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The Problem with Structural Unemployment in the U.S.

Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012

Following the most recent recession, an attempt has been made to explain current levels of unemployment as resulting from structural unemployment, or a mismatch between the skills of the unemployed and the types of jobs available. The evidence, however, indicates that the issue is actually a...

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Macroeconomic Policy, Growth and Income Distribution in the Brazilian Economy in the 2000s

Serrano, Franklin; Summa, Ricardo - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2011

The Brazilian economy grew by 4.2 percent annually from 2004-2010, more than double its annual growth from 1999-2003 or indeed its growth rate over the prior quarter century. This growth was accompanied by a significant reduction in poverty and extreme poverty, especially after 2005, as well as...

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Honduras: Recent Economic Performance

Cordero, Jose Antonio - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

This paper looks at the Honduran economy, including longer-term trends, the pre-crisis years, and recent developments since the June 28th coup. It finds that poverty and inequality decreased significantly during the Zelaya administration, with rapid growth of more than 6 percent during the first...

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Inequality as Policy: The United States Since 1979

Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

Since the end of the 1970s, the United States has seen a dramatic increase in economic inequality. While the United States has long been among the most unequal of the world’s rich economies, the economic and social upheaval that began in the 1970s was a striking departure from the movement...

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Employer Responsibility in Health Care Reform: Potential Effects on Low- and Moderate-Income Workers

Fremstad, Shawn - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

Leading health care reform proposals all require individuals to obtain health care coverage, but differ in how they would require employers to share in the costs of coverage for their employees. This report reviews the employer responsibility requirements in the leading proposals—often...

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Bolivia: The Economy During the Morales Administration

Weisbrot, Mark; Johnston, Jake; Ray, Rebecca - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

This paper examines the Bolivian economy since President Evo Morales took office in 2006. It finds that Bolivia’s economic growth in the last four years has been higher than at any time in the last 30 years, averaging 4.9 percent annually since the current administration took office in 2006....

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