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China, Chips, Child Poverty & Measuring Inequality

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I Think the Federal Experiment Provides Evidence That It Will Work

The U.S. experiment to give people with children cash assistance was a big success, says Julian Zelizer. He says it's an interesting case study in the reality that you can have a policy that actually works and still not persist. The economics profession has been complicit in creating an income inequality industrial complex, he says. We should be talking about most productive ways through tax system to help bottom 10%.

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