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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008545815
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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 that are adjusted only for inflation rather than for changes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008565798
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A College Degree is No Guarantee
Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014
The Great Recession has been hard on recent college graduates, but it has been even harder for black recent college graduates. This report examines the labor-market outcomes of black recent college graduates using the general approach developed by Federal Reserve Bank of New York researchers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010862301
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Health-insurance Coverage for Low-wage Workers, 1979-2010 and Beyond
Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2012
This paper uses data from the Current Population Surveys for 1980 through 2011 to review trends in health-insurance coverage rates for low-wage workers (defined as workers in the bottom fifth of the wage distribution in each survey year). In 2010, over 38 percent of low-wage workers lacked...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009649732
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Making Jobs Good
Schmitt, John; Jones, Janelle - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013
A series of earlier CEPR reports documented a substantial decline over the last three decades in the share of “good jobs” in the U.S. economy. This fall-off in job quality took place despite a large increase in the educational attainment and age of the workforce, as well as the productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667720
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Health-Insurance Coverage Rates for US Workers, 1979-2008
Schmitt, John; Rho, Hye Jin - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2010
This study estimates rates of all forms of health insurance coverage for workers aged 18 to 64, by wage quintiles, over the past three decades. This analysis looks at health insurance from any source, while other reports (with rare exceptions) look at only employer-provided health coverage. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008540691
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008545818
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Job Sharing: Tax Credits to Prevent Layoffs and Stimulate Employment
Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009
The unemployment rate is expected to average 10.2 percent for 2010, 9.1 percent for 2011, and 7.3 percent for 2012. With this in mind, this Issue Brief describes a job sharing tax credit, designed to provide a quick and substantial boost to the economy. It would use tax dollars to pay firms to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008545820
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Pay for Play? Tax Credits for Paid Time Off
Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009
Economists are increasingly coming to the recognition that the current downturn is likely to be longer and more severe than they had expected at the time the last stimulus package was approved in February. As a result, there is likely to be interest in additional stimulus in order to boost the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004999566
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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
working families. Rather than using the federal poverty line as a metric for a family's economic hardship, the authors of this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005048511