"The capital income distributed to wealthy people is a bigger drain on the disposable income of workers than the tax-and-transfer system is, generally speaking." #MattBruenig https://mattbruenig.com/2023/08/27/oliver-anthony-and-distributive-justice/

#ViaRSS

"whichever course of action Biden chooses, we should be clear that he has other options than agreeing to crack the whip against America’s poor." #MattBruenig https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2023/05/23/the-debt-limit-situation/

#DebtCeiling

from #MattBruenig https://mattbruenig.com/2023/04/12/is-national-public-radio-actually-national-private-radio/

The social prerequisite for technological dynamism is a universalist welfare state that reduces the coupling between fluctuating labor income and human thriving.

See #MattBruenig https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2023/03/31/what-to-do-about-ai-driven-job-displacement/

Uncapping the social security tax wouldn't very much soak the rich. cf #MattBruenig https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2023/03/07/uncapping-the-social-security-tax/

“‘Equity’ is…a word that you invoke any time you object to the unit of equality someone else is using, regardless of what, if any, your preferred alternative unit of equality is.”

from #MattBruenig https://mattbruenig.com/2023/03/05/equality-and-equity/

@SteveRoth And of course there's the classic piece on Black wealth destruction over the financial crisis by @ryanlcooper and #MattBruenig https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/Foreclosed.pdf Bruenig also had a great piece showing that while the other races were already neoliberal, the middle-class-heavy precrisis black community had an unusually nordic wealth (i think) distribution, until the crisis destroyed the middle and neoliberalified the black wealth distribution too.

“replacing a lagging stat with an inaccurate stat doesn’t help all that much and can cause more confusion than clarity.” #MattBruenig on the “total fertility rate” https://mattbruenig.com/2023/02/16/the-total-fertility-rate-is-kind-of-a-nonsense-statistic/

Pregnancy and childbirth could and should be free. cf #MattBruenig https://www.peoplespolicyproject.org/2023/01/19/it-would-be-easy-to-provide-universal-pregnancy-coverage/