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| Topic | Bipartisan bill to slash child poverty |
| Balrog0 12/17/19 12:21:15 PM #47: | Kolibri X posted... Then saying this will slash child poverty is misleading. If you want to give poor people with kids free money then just say it. Those are two ways of saying the same thing Kolibri X posted... Otherwise this is just a hope and dream. Blind faith that they will do the right thing with it instead of buying scratchers or something. https://www.nber.org/papers/w21101 Perhaps the most surprising effects in our expenditure results are for spending in so-called risky categories. We find large and significant decreases in both alcohol and tobacco spending among families in the full sample. For the full sample, tobacco expenditures decline by 6 cents per dollar of benefit income and alcohol purchases decline by 7 cents. We additionally find a 3 percentage point decrease (off a base probability of 33 percent) in the likelihood of purchasing any alcohol products in licensed establishments among the low-income sample. These coefficients, presented in Table 7, are among the largest changes in spending that we find in non-major categories. --- But to you who are listening I say: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you. ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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