This week on Uncommon Knowledge, George Gilder, author of Wealth and Poverty, the book that became a best seller during the first year of the Reagan years and a guide to the Reagan administration itself, is now—just in time perhaps for the Romney years—available in a new edition. Gilder describes how Reagan’s near trillion-dollar bulge in defense spending transformed the global balance of power in favor of capitalism.
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So much for escaping the oddities of California politics—not when the governor suffers from wanderlust (it helps to have a compliant Legislature), billionaires can’t agree on campaign tactics, and a former House speaker applies a heavy hand in the race to succeed her in Congress.
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We provide the first direct estimates of the effects of minimum wages on low-wage workers in families at different points of the distribution of income-to-needs, using data from the Survey of Income and Program Participation, which oversamples low-income families.
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