#Income

Polly Mackenzie

pollymackenzie

My first job in politics was as local government policy adviser to Ed Davey. Most of our time was spent campaigning to replace Council Tax with Local Income Tax (a

Equitable Growth

equitablegrowth

Today @uscensusbureau released the Household Pulse Survey for September 16th-28th. @AustinClemens2, @LipstickEcon, @Raksha_Kopparam and @CSanchezCumming analyze how the Coronavirus Recession is impacting economic security in 5 graphs. 1/6ht

Anna Mikhailova

AVMikhailova

internal Treasury documents reveal tax rise plans to pay for expected economic hitOfficials discussing:- raising income tax, VAT, national insurance- freezing public sector pay for 2 years- scrapping pensions triple

Armine Yalnizyan

ArmineYalnizyan

A fantastic "real time" analysis of what is happening in the U.S. job market, from Alexander Bick (Arizona State U) and Adam Bland (Virginia Commonwealth U) https://alexbick.weebly.com/uploads/1/0/1/3/101306056/bb_covid.pdf20% of LF was

suestions

suestions

$1200 is $1200 but it’s a one time payment and not NEARLY enough for low income families with no paychecks coming in and unpaid leave. not to mention the payment

Anny @ Art commission info in pinned!

FaerieEmperice

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Anand Sahasranaman

compsocsys

As @gabriel_zucman, @PikettyLeMonde, @lucas_chancel & others have been discussing economic inequality and potential remedies, we model income inequality and poverty dynamics in India. A thread on some preliminary results... 1/

Dr. J Robson

JenniferRobson8

So today we start to learn how well implementation of CERB will go. I feel *cautiously* optimistic that the fed IM/IT will hold up. Why? Well, last week @ESDC_GC officials

Neal Winokur aka The Grumpy Accountant

thegrumpyaccou1

What is all this talk about UBI? universal basic income in Canada? Cmon people!! We ALREADY HAVE IT!!!!!! Here are the facts!!!! For those 65 years or older we have

graceyswer

graceyswer

The government not helping sex workers only reinforces the cycle of poverty and prostitution. Now more than ever, we feel we have to work despite it being unsafe to do

✿ 🦇 Spooky Babushka 🦇 ✿

batbushka

Disabled ppl deserve to spend money on frivolous things & shouldn't have to spend all their limited/fixed income on their Healthcare. Hello I am disabled and have a very limited

Sandy Darity, Retweets do not mean endorsement.

SandyDarity

4. UBI is more likely to affect inequality adversely. If you give Bill Gates and "Bill the plumber" the same $12K, the former could save it all leading to a

Gilly J 🇯🇲

MsGillyJ

Paying taxes in Jamaica is an extreme sport. Trying to find digestible information on the increase in the NIS insurable wage ceiling is near to impossible. Something that affects thousands

Martin Pelletier

MPelletierCIO

Outstanding, finally someone brave enough to report on it. Well done @BloombergCA “Canadians owe C$2.3 trillion in mortgages, credit card, and other consumer debt, about equal to the country’s GDP,

Scott Santens 🧢🏄‍♂️

scottsantens

Spain is not implementing UBI. I repeat: Spain is not implementing UBI. This reminds of how the world thought Finland was implementing UBI because of clickbait headlines about their planning

Chuck Marr

ChuckCBPP

Speaker Pelosi’s #COVID19 economic relief proposal includes critical temporary improvements in the Child Tax Credit and EITC, providing well-timed and effective stimulus and helping avoid a dramatic poverty spike.Threadhttp://bit.ly/2ztDn2x CBO