Course Blog for Soc 3151: Social Issues and Social Policy at Baruch College
Comparing the candidate tax plans.
Today many of us declared out political stand points and i thought it would be interesting to connect that to the upcoming elections and the presidential candidates tax proposals
Here are some things that I found interesting from http://www.urban.org/UploadedPDF/411693_CandidateTaxPlans.pdf
· The two candidates’ plans would have sharply different distributional effects. Senator [...]
I tried to collect some info on IRS audits… I couldnt find a published number, but I did my own rough estimate based on IRS numbers, and it looks like an EITC return is about 8-9 times more likely to be audited – at least in 2002. (.26% vs 1.86%) Here is other info
Apparently the [...]
I couldn’t find anything really brief on this so I will write it out, hopefully shorter:
Ketchup says, “For one thing, the emergency nature of the crisis, the lack of prior long-term planning, and the early New Deal’s flexibility meant that nothing new was really in place until the late 1930’s.” Eh, I don’t think so.
Before [...]
When they said that Roosevelt established the NRA, I was like WT_? Here’s the word:
The other part of the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) was the National Recovery Administration (NRA), whose task was to establish and administer industrywide codes that prohibited unfair trade practices, set minimum wages and maximum hours, guaranteed workers the right to [...]
i was taking the A train how from work today and when i was changing a song on my ipod i overheard something that reminded me of this class. there was three women and the train and they were talking and i heard one say to the other that “I’m on foodstamps.” they were talking [...]
To get a idea of the life of poor people in India..Watch this video..
Man Holding Burberry Umbrella
Woman Holding $10,000 Hermes Bag
Women wearing designers shoes valued above $1,000 each
Baby wearing $100 Fendi Bib
Hey guys, this [...]
You can play around on the Census website for current data on poverty in the US…
See Snapshots archive.
Snapshot for January 31, 2007.
Minimum wage increasingly lags poverty line
by Liana Fox
The recently released 2007 federal poverty guideline highlights the severe and growing inadequacy of the minimum wage. Currently, a full-time minimum wage worker (40 hours/week, 52 weeks/year) would earn $10,712 a year, falling nearly 40% below the $17,170 poverty level for a [...]
So this is the 2007 poverty line. What do you think about it? Is it realistic? How much lower or higher would it have to be to actually delineate who is or is not poor? Or is that even possible with one set of numbers?
I saw this article on cnn.com and thought the chart was particularly helpful. Disclosure: I do not know if people generally consider cnn.com or The Tax Policy Center are especially aligned with certain parties or ideologies. Also, this article is from June 11, 2008, so there might have been revisions. But I thought it would be helpful. [...]
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