Guest blogger Marcelo Ostria, an NCPA research associate, discusses the challenge involved in measuring child poverty in the United States. In light of federal spending cuts, the media has recently revisited poverty in the United States. A recent article in the Christian Post depicts alarming child poverty and hunger rates while another article from the Associated Press [...]
I was going to let the latest minimum wage issue pass and defer to last year’s NCPA publication on the topic. But every now and then, patent silliness from other sources deserves a response. A report from the Soros-funded Center for Economic and Policy Research (which was released a year ago, but has suddenly become a hot topic) [...]
Last month the National Bureau of Economic Research released a working paper that explored some of the more puzzling disconnects between the harsh realities of U.S. tax progressivity and how the public views fair taxation. Matthew Weinzierl of the Harvard Business School argues that modern tax research is the result of utilitarian assumptions. This means [...]
Special blog post by Lewis Warne, an NCPA research associate. In 2011 Congress online canadian pharmacy no prescription defunded the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM, an). The SPM is an alternative to the Official Poverty Measure (OPM) that has been used since the 1960s. The goal of the SPM is to provide a more comprehensive picture of poverty [...]
Using a new measure of poverty which adjusts for area costs of living, in-kind benefits, health care costs and other factors, the Census Bureau released a new report today (reported