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Income Inequality Has Gone Up
 The chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, Jason Furman, recently wrote in the Washington Post that "Last year saw the largest single-year reduction in poverty since the 1960s." Furman's claim is echoed by a recent Census Bureau report that showed that the typical household saw its income grow by about $2,800 - the fastest rate on record. But while those numbers seem rosy - they are hardly enough to conclusively say that the U.S economy is healthy. For one - the media celebrated the household income figures despite the fact that any two or more people living in the same residence are considered a "household" - and the figures don't necessarily reflect anything about personal income. But according to Nick Buffie at the Center for Economic and Policy Research - "Income Inequality Has Gone Up Whether We Look At Households or Individuals". Buffie writes that whether you look at personal - family - or household income, "No matter how you toy with the precise definition of income, it's clear that inequality has gone up: by all three metrics, median income growth failed to keep pace with overall growth from 1974 to 2015." -Thom (What do you think? Tell us here.) |
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Hour One: Why Don't Seniors Get A Benefit Increase Every Year? - Daniel Marans, The Huffington Post
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Q: Who said at the third presidential debate last night, "Social Security is going to run out of money in the 2030s"? A: Chris Wallace - he said, "Social Security is going to run out of money in the 2030s. And at that time, recipients are going to take huge cuts in their benefits." Trump said he would solve the problem by growing the economy at a record rate and repealing Obamacare. Hillary Clinton said she would enhance benefits for low income workers and for women who have been disadvantaged by the current social security system. Social Security is NOT going to run out of money. Bernie Sanders would raise the cap. Hillary Clinton has also said she understands that the highest-income Americans will have to pay more. |
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