Ways to Create Jobs and Reduce InequalityRobert Reich
Taxes on low-wage labor need to be cut, and wage subsidies such as the earned income tax credit should be expanded: This would boost incomes, encourage work, reward companies for job creation, and reduce inequality. Technology will improve society in ways big and small over the next few ...
How can we mitigate income inequality and poverty in USA? What solutions to poverty do you think would be most successful? How can we mitigate income inequality and poverty in the United States? What are the policies and measures used to reduce poverty at the state and national levels? What ...
Airports are finding new ways to reduce travel stress, from eye-catching aesthetics (美学) to improved passenger flow. At Singapore’s Changi Airport, passengers get a close-up view of the world’s tallest indoor waterfall. As you enter the airport, you look up at a large screen. Rather ...
Second, even though more Asians have been lifted out of poverty, domestic inequality of income and wealth has increased in the last 20 years. Part of this is caused by rural-urban disparities, and widening gaps in high-value knowledge and skills. Without adequate social safety nets, healthcare...
A clear indicator is in the US where companies raised the most amount of corporate debt. Apple and Disney raised US$7bil worth of debt papers to reduce their borrowings. In Malaysia, corporations have been deleveraging for the past few years in anticipation of a slowdown. Companies are not ...
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“We have determined that only a portion of carbon-tax revenues is needed to compensate low-income households and thus reduce inequality, while the rest can be used to improve the economy by reducing payroll or other distortionary taxes,” says Xaquin García-Muros, lead author of the study,...
Unless we seriously root out corruption, we are in trouble. I am not naive enough to believe that we can eradicate corruption completely. No country has done so. But we must, at the very least, reduce it from a cancer in society to just a sore thumb. ...
negotiations in areas such as licensing requirements, data privacy and protection, and dispute resolution, but can bring competition and productivity gains to sectors that have long been resistant to change. A collateral benefit is that this could reduce income inequality within countries and across ...