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Jul 27, 2016 Laura Tyson , Lenny Mendonca

伯克利—2005年到2014年间，25个发达经济体三分之二家庭的真实收入不增或下降。一些国家在经过了政府的大量税收和转移支付干预后才实现家庭收入不降。

这一经验给美国等国家带来了教训。在即将到来的11月总统和国会选举中，不平等性和收入分配至关重要。美国可以从有用的政策中学到什么？

美国是全球异类，其社会安全网与就业紧密相关。在欧洲，社会福利支出平均占GDP的23%，美国只有16%。而对家庭来说，美国是异类中的异类：只有三个国家——汤加、苏里南和巴布亚新几内亚——没有带薪探亲假国家政策。

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Laura Tyson

Writing for PS since 2012
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Laura Tyson, a former chair of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers during the Clinton administration, is a professor at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, and a member of the Board of Advisers at Angeleno Group.

Lenny Mendonca

Writing for PS since 2014
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Lenny Mendonca, Senior Partner Emeritus at McKinsey & Company, is a former chief economic and business adviser to Governor Gavin Newsom of California and chair of the California High-Speed Rail Authority.

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Steve Hurst Jul 30, 2016

'From 2005 to 2014, the real income of two-thirds of households in 25 developed economies was flat or fell'

'Social-welfare spending averages 23% of GDP in Europe, but only 16% in the US'

Since the US is populated mainly by migrants, many from Europe it is doubtful there is some wild genetic advantage. Hence sooner or later US social-welfare spending will have to rise for social cohesion. As that will be fought over it should be interesting. Initatives like the one described are always welcome but probably insufficent to raise levels overall
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stephan Edwards Jul 30, 2016

Their will be many sound bytes, lots of speeches but in the end nothing will change. Most likely given the way jobs that pay a living wage are being exported or filled with cheap H1B's, it will get worse. Bluntly none of the people in a position to change things give enough of a damn to bother. That isn't going to change 1200 families out of how many who need help? The situation is not going to change for the most part because our "Beloved" congress believes if your poor you deserve it.
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Denis Drew Jul 28, 2016

So many detailed programs to deal with the symptoms -- when the core pathology would yield to one simple, easy to achieve cure:

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As long as nobody else talks about re-unionization (as the beginning and the end of re-constituting the American dream) — nobody thinks it is possible to talk about …
… or something.

Easy as pie to make union busting a felony in our most progressive states f(WA, OR, CA, NV, IL, NY, MD) — and then get out of the way as the first 2000 people in the many telephone directories re-define our future.
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Do this or do nothing!
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