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Perspectives
Is
Deflation On The Horizon?
by
Donald Sutherland
An examination of three major cases of deflation
suggests that while the United States is not
presently at imminent risk of destructive deflation,
nevertheless there is a growing risk that we
will suffer a bout of at least mild deflation.r
--October 30, 2008
Have
the Welfare Reforms of 1996 & the expansion
of the Earned Income Tax Credit Eliminated
the Need for a Basic Income Guarantee in
the United States?
Presented
by James B. Bryan, Senior Economist, Institute
for SocioEconomic Studies and Associate
Professor, Manhattanville College, Purchase,
NY at the First Congress of the U.S. Basic
Income Guarantee Network At the City University
of New York Graduate Center
-- March 9, 2002
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Drug Coverage Of the U.S. Population Age
65 & Older: Answering some Economic Questions
Presented
by James B. Bryan, Senior Economist,
Institute for SocioEconomic Studies
and Associate Professor, Manhattanville
College, Purchase, NY at the
Eastern Economics Association, Boston,
MA
-- March 17, 2002
The Continuing Rise in Prescription Drug Expenditures
by Don Sutherland, June 2001
Spending on retail outpatient prescription drugs
increased 18.8% in 2000 to $131.9 billion, according to a new report issued by the National Institute for Health Care Management (NICM). This makes 2000 the seventh year out of the last
thirteen in which prescription drug spending rose more than 12%.
One
Divorce that Would Be Worth It
by Don Sutherland, May 2001
As inevitable as the rise and fall of the tides or the passing of the seasons, year after year, the
veritable "army" of Americans who lack health insurance coverage gains the attention of the news media and policymakers alike. Yet, as
much attention as this issue attracts, its underlying cause receives little scrutiny. The inherent defect at the heart of the existing health care system is that employment is the foundation of health coverage. Go to policy perspective
Growing Number See American Dream as Unattainable
by Heather Rubeo , May 2001
The economic boom that has brought
prosperity to so many in recent years failed to lift all Americans out of poverty. In fact, the Wall Street explosion of the 1990s has contributed to a widening of the income gap
that separates the "haves" and "have nots." This uneven accumulation of wealth, combined with cuts to federal welfare assistance programs and a dwindling
supply of low-income housing, has pushed an increasingly large number of the extremely poor into homelessness. Go to policy perspective
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