Matthew Yglesias

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Desmond and the NYT mag did a tremendous disservice to public understanding by claiming that poverty hasn’t fallen at all in fifty years when low-income Americans’ material living standards have clearly risen. https://t.co/qpozpNwcT3 https://t.co/dHM1crugKH — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 14, 2023

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Significantly expanding the welfare state requires higher taxes which is very politically challenging, but analytically speaking the relatively high poverty rate in the US is easy to explain — our safety net is unusually small. https://t.co/MbDcVccIsG — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 14, 2023

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Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Why has poverty fallen? Because the EITC, the expansion of the CTC and the expansion of Medicaid have all given the poor more resources, while work and wages have also risen a bit. What we’ve done works, we could accomplish more if we did more. https://t.co/1tdxmcG3ek — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 14, 2023