It is wrong that we have economic institutions that leave many parents with resources so inadequate that they cannot buy things for their children. Why not help them out and pump money back into the economy?
Matt Bruenig
Matt Bruenig is a blogger at PolicyShop. Follow him on Twitter.
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The Top 10 Percent of White Families Own Almost Everything
The overall wealth distribution picture is grim and getting worse.
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The Single Mother, Child Poverty Myth
High poverty rates for children in single mother families is a policy choice.
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America’s Class System Across The Life Cycle
Measuring the impact of income inequality on people’s lives.
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Why Paul Ryan Is Wrong to Blame Black Culture for Poverty
Was it inferior black culture that had blacks at 55 percent poverty in 1959?
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Our Enormous Retirement Subsidies for the Rich
The federal government pays a lot of money for the rich to retire.
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1950s Capitalist Propaganda and Opportunistic Egalitarians
Capitalists used to care about inequality.
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Marriage and Poverty
Blaming declining marriage for rising poverty is backwards in many ways.
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A Specter Is Haunting Alaska—the Specter of Communism
If enacting a Universal Basic Income makes a state Communist, then Alaska fits the mold.
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Inside the Lives of Fast Food Workers
Denying them decent pay is morally intolerable