Slide 1 Welfare Policy “Welfare is hated by those who administer it, mistrusted by those who pay for it and held in contempt by those who receive it.” —Peter C. Goldmark,…

Slide 1 Assignment for Wednesday, Feb. 7 Schiller Ch.4: Labor Force Participation Current Population Report, P60-231, p. 16 DeParle, Ch. 5: The Accidental Program, 1935-1991…

Notes for Robbins Lectures Prices and poverty: The political lives of numbers Angus Deaton, Princeton CERGE, Prague, May 2015 Measurement and policy Familiar link from measurement…

Lecture 6: How poor are the poor? Today’s Readings Center on Hunger and Poverty, http://www.centeronhunger.org. Select the link, “Food Security Institute.” Edin and…

How is Poverty Measured? Adam Smith Relative measures â the absence of a linen shirt. U.S. today Mollie Orshansky in the mid 1960s took the cost of a minimally adequate…

PowerPoint Presentation Poverty Reduction in U.S., China and the World Robert Mundell University Professor and Professor of Economics Columbia University and Chinese University…