1. CEPR News December 2012
(Matching tags: poverty, venezuela, inequality, Haiti, financial transaction tax, Fiscal Cliff)

The following highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more. CEPR on Haiti CEPR has been out in front calling for the United Nations to take responsibility for bringing cholera ...

2. Supplemental Security and Temporary Assistance: How "This American Life" Got the Story Wrong
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality, social insurance, disability)

... Assistance to Needy Families, or TANF) to SSI. … Rising poverty rates, not lax program rules, is the critical factor.” “[T]he rise in the child SSI caseloads is dwarfed by the decline in the number ...

3. CEPR News, March 2013
(Matching tags: poverty, venezuela, retirement, inequality, paid sick days, Haiti, Social Security, medicare, Honduras, minimum wage, financial transactions tax)

... economy almost doubled over the next six years, poverty was reduced by half and extreme poverty by 70 percent. In other Venezuela news, Mark was quoted in this Reuters article on the launch of Venezuela’s ...

4. Media Coverage of Poverty: Quality, Not Just Quantity, Matters
(Matching tags: new york times, poverty, media)

In a new Nieman Reports article, Dan Froomkin argues that the media pay insufficient attention to poverty. Discussing Froomkin’s piece, Margaret Sullivan, the Public Editor of the New York Times, notes: ...

5. What Will Selection of New Pope Mean for Latin America?
(Matching tags: human rights, poverty, Argentina)

This post was amended March 14, 2013 to reflect a correction by The Guardian. The papal conclave announced today that the new pope will be Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio of Argentina. “Pope Francis,” as he ...

6. Relative Poverty Measures Can Help Paint a More Accurate picture of Poverty in 21st Century America
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality)

In his most recent column, Thomas Edsall says there are three ways of defining poverty in the United States: the official measure, the Census Bureau’s Supplemental Poverty Measure, and a consumption-based ...

7. New CBO Estimates Show How Shifting to Chained CPI Would Harm Poorly Compensated Workers and Others Struggling to Afford the Basics
(Matching tags: poverty, retirement, inequality, Social Security, income, cost of living)

I wrote back in December about how the shift to a “chained” CPI would have negative impacts that go far beyond Social Security. On March 1, the Congressional Budget Office released a new estimate that ...

8. Labor Market Policy Research Reports, February 23 – March 8, 2013
(Matching tags: poverty, jobs, labor market, inequality, unemployment, paid sick days, women, employment)

The following is a collection of the latest labor market policy research reports: Center for Economic and Policy Research The Human Capital Dimensions of Sustainable Investment: What Investment Analysts ...

9. Venezuelan Economic and Social Performance Under Hugo Chávez, in Graphs
(Matching tags: poverty, venezuela, health, inequality, education, social services, Chavez, economic growth)

On Tuesday, Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez passed away after 14 years in office. Below is a series of graphs that illustrate the economic and social changes that have taken place in Venezuela during ...

10. Temporary Assistance for Families Should Empower Working-Class Parents Not Serve as a Slush Fund for States
(Matching tags: poverty, inequality, Temporary Assistance)

... … empower able-bodied [low-income parents] with the tools to secure a job, lift oneself out of poverty, and provide for one’s family.” What conservatives seem unable to acknowledge (and this goes for ...