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Jackson, Ryan[jackson.ryan@epa.gov] American Enterprise Institute Tue 9/19/2017 10:04:50 AM AEI Today: Bipartisanship wins a round at the White House
Economists of all political views breathed a sigh of relief and raised a glass in celebration last week.
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Bipartisanship wins a round at the White House
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Economists of all political views breathed a sigh of relief and raised a glass in celebration when Kevin Hassett was confirmed last week as chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. Hassett, until recently an AEI scholar, is widely respected -- as evidenced by a June letter of support for his nomination signed by 44 leading economists from both the left and right. This
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degree of bipartisanship is all too rare in Washington.
Republicans can pick up the ball on health care with Medicaid
Two decades ago, America launched a new approach to welfare. Passed by a Republican Congress and signed by President Bill Clinton, welfare reform began in 1997 as a way to shift our antipoverty strategy away from giving low-income people cash and toward helping them find employment. This new vision came largely as a result of state-level experimentation. Unlike the 1990s, state policy is regrettably having no impact on Capitol Hill today.
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The next frontier in the War on Poverty
James Sullivan, author of a recent report on US consumption poverty, offers this thought: "Relying on the official poverty rate, many have concluded that we have lost the 'War on Poverty,' but improved measures of poverty show that we have actually made tremendous progress." This claim is true to a large extent. But we still can't declare victory so long as we believe that the goal of such programs is to help people escape poverty through earnings.
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Vestager: Competition is key to a fair society
There is some broad global agreement on the basic principles of competition policy: Firms with market power should not engage in conduct that mainly harms competition, for instance. Yesterday, European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager visited AEI to discuss the European Union's perspective. "Competition in the market is as fundamental to a fair society as competition of ideas is to a free one," says Vestager.
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