In the early 1970s, policymakers considered ways to combat the anti-work effects of the growing welfare state. But rather than reining in the welfare state, they decided to expand it in 1975 by enacting the EITC. The credit was aimed at reviving work incentives… Initially, it was ...
Domestic demand remained buoyant, reflecting the rapid population growth (about 6 percent per year on average) as well as large infrastructure investment projects in Abu Dhabi and Dubai. However, strong demand growth and shortages of housing, have led to sharp rises in rents and put upward ...
Meanwhile, the biggest reason behind the slowdown in cost growth is one that everyone hopes will go away, namely the lingering effects of the Great Recession. According to a study by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, about 77 percent of the slowdown comes from negative economic factors su...
POLICY OPTIONS TO STIMULATE BROADBAND AVAILABILITY The federal government, in collaboration with state and local governments and the private sector, should play an active role in stimulating broadband deployment, particularly in un-served areas. There appear to be at least two major barriers that ...
Furthermore, treating can include relieving the disease, e.g., causing regression of the state, disease, disorder, or condition or at least one of its clinical or subclinical symptoms. A benefit to a subject to be treated can be either statistically significant or at least perceptible to the...
After all, isn’t the welfare state smaller in these countries? Haven’t many of them adopted pro-growth reforms such as the flat tax? […] on May 31, 2016 at 10:32 am Rand Paul’s Heroic and Vital Fight against Global Scheme to Destroy Financial Privacy | International Liberty […]...