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November 7, 2015

Wait: Maybe Europeans are as Rich as Americans

You can cherry-pick brief periods along the bottom diagonal to support any argument you like. But between 1970 and 2014, U.S. real GDP per capita grew 117%. The EU15 grew 115%. (Rounding explains the 1% difference shown above.) Statistically, we call that “the same.” Which brought me back to a question that’s been nagging me […]

Filed Under: Welfare, Inequality, and Poverty

November 4, 2015

Middle-Aged White Americans Are Dying of Despair

Since 1998, people all over the world have been living healthier and living longer. But middle-aged, white non-Hispanics in the United States have been getting sicker and dying in greater numbers. The trend is being driven primarily by people with a high-school degree or less. Between 1978 to 1998, the mortality rate for U.S. whites […]

Filed Under: Mental Health, Welfare, Inequality, and Poverty

November 2, 2015

The Mystery of the Vanishing Pay Raise

AMID the global economic turmoil and seesawing markets, millions of Americans have one overriding question: When will my pay increase arrive? The nation’s unemployment rate has fallen substantially since the end of the Great Recession, sliding to 5.1 percent from 10 percent in 2009, but wages haven’t accelerated upward, as many had expected. In fact, […]

Filed Under: Inequality

October 30, 2015

Medicaid Privatization in Iowa and the Market State

I hadn’t written on health care for awhile, but sadly, whenever I put on my yellow waders and dig in, I keep coming up with stuff that’s so nasty it’s hard to stop. This post was inspired a link that a reader from Iowa, incited by a previous post on ObamaCare’s crapification, threw over the […]

Filed Under: MLTC

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