Consider the Evidence

Lane Kenworthy

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  • America’s future early education system
  • The good society
  • Can we get wages rising?
  • How to achieve shared prosperity even if wages aren’t rising
  • Slides
  • FISS 2013 conference in Stockholm
  • Social issues in America
  • Beyond the ‘fiscal cliff,’ America’s kids need more – not less – government spending
  • SASE 2013 conference in Milan
  • America’s opportunity gap
  • Gaining from growth
  • Will everyone be worse off if the United States turns social democratic?
  • Mitt Romney vs. the 47%
  • The State of Working America, 2012 edition
  • We’re all dependent on government, and it has long been thus
  • Disability is the human condition
  • Mitt Romney’s peculiar approach to tax fairness
  • Globalization and taxes
  • Seven links
  • Wage stagnation isn’t due to a compositional shift
  • Is rising obesity a product of income inequality and economic insecurity?
  • America’s equity-market-centered financial system in decline?
  • Why the surge in obesity?
  • Ten links
  • The good society
  • Is decoupling real?
  • Should income growth over the life course lessen concern about the great decoupling?
  • Is the U.S. tax system more progressive than those of most other rich countries?
  • Inequality, mobility, opportunity
  • Social issues in America
  • How rich countries lift up the poor
  • Winner-take-all financial incentives, Steve Jobs, and the living standards of ordinary Americans
  • When does economic growth benefit people on low to middle incomes — and why?
  • Were the Bush tax cuts worse for progressivity or for revenues?
  • What can we do about lack of wage growth?
  • Progress for the poor
  • The late American jobs machine
  • Low wages in Germany
  • How should we measure the poverty rate?
  • Living standards in the U.K.