Tag Archive: poverty

1. Examining Income Inequality in the U.S.

   January 22, 2014 12:04 pm Comments Off on Examining Income Inequality in the U.S.

   Why is it getting greater? How serious is this problem? What can be done to close the income gap and reduce poverty?

   Dick’s guest, Dr. Tim Smeeding, a distinguished Professor of Economics & Public Policy and Director of the Institute for Research on Poverty at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, shares how we got here and the five things that will best improve this situation.

   For more information on Dr. Smeeding or IRP, please visit: www.irp.wisc.edu

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2. The $15 Minimum Wage

   October 30, 2013 1:34 pm Comments Off on The $15 Minimum Wage

   Would a $15 an hour minimum wage end all poverty among those who work? How would it affect unemployment, inflation and profits? Where does the Earned Income Tax Credit fit in all this? Would this reduce inequality in the U.S.?

   Former director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Institute for Research on Poverty and widely published expert on poverty in America, Dr. Bob Haveman, is Dick’s guest.

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