Economic inequality and congressional action in the United States: A comparison of the minimum wage and alternative minimum tax

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 273-292
Author(s):  
Gregory Koger ◽  
Stefanie Rodriguez
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Congressional Action

Congress and Proposals for International Government

1950 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
pp. 383-399 ◽  
Author(s):  
Percy E. Corbett
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Critical Study ◽  
Background Content ◽  
Congressional Action

Since the summer of 1949 a number of resolutions embodying proposals for world or regional federation have been pending in the Congress of the United States. During the early months of 1950, extended hearings on these various proposals have been held by the Senate Subcommittee on Foreign Relations headed by Senator Elbert Thomas. The purpose of this article is to present a critical study of the background, content, and the implications of the projects thus submitted for congressional action.

Causes of Changing Inequality in the United States

Inequality ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
James K. Galbraith
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social History ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Affluent Society

A half-century ago, the study of economic inequality was moribund in the United States. Indeed, in 1958 John Kenneth Galbraith noted in The Affluent Society that “few things are more evident in modern social history than the decline of interest in inequality...

scholarly journals The Econometrics and Economics of the Employment Effects of Minimum Wages: Getting from Known Unknowns to Known Knowns

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 293-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Neumark
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Minimum Wage ◽  
Past Research ◽  
The United States ◽  
Minimum Wages ◽  
Definitive Answer ◽  
Employment Effects ◽  
Conflicting Evidence ◽  
Known Unknowns ◽  
Wage Increases

Abstract I discuss the econometrics and the economics of past research on the effects of minimum wages on employment in the United States. My intent is to try to identify key questions raised in the recent literature, and some from the earlier literature, which I think hold the most promise for understanding the conflicting evidence and arriving at a more definitive answer about the employment effects of minimum wages. My secondary goal is to discuss how we can narrow the range of uncertainty about the likely effects of the large minimum wage increases becoming more prevalent in the United States. I discuss some insights from both theory and past evidence that may be informative about the effects of high minimum wages, and try to emphasize what research can be done now and in the near future to provide useful evidence to policymakers on the results of the coming high minimum wage experiment, whether in the United States or in other countries.

The Influence of the United States Congress on Canadian-American Relations

1974 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 903-929 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. Dobell
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
Executive Branch ◽  
Actual State ◽  
United States Congress ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Congressional Action

Traditionally relations between nations, including Canada and the United States, have been analyzed in terms of the interaction between the executive branches of the two governments. This approach used to reflect relatively accurately the actual state of affairs. It is still broadly consistent with the constitutional allocation of powers, particularly in Canada. While the president of the United States must seek congressional action in order to declare war and Senate action to ratify treaties and to confirm ambassadorial appointments, these powers in Canada fall within the prerogatives of the crown, and constitutionally no parliamentary approval for decisions by the executive branch in any of these areas is required.

Economic Inequality in the United States in the Period from 1790 to 1860

1971 ◽  
Vol 31 (4) ◽  
pp. 822-839 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lee Soltow
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Economic Inequality ◽  
The United States ◽  
Economic Equality ◽  
Revolutionary Era ◽  
Aggregate Wealth

There is some speculation that there was more economic egalitarianism in the United States among free men in the period from 1776 to 1790 than there was at any time in the following seventy years until the abolition of slavery. One would like to believe the speculation since it is known that there was extensive inequality of wealth in I860 and one would like to believe that the formation of the nation took place within a context of economic equality. This would be produced from a condition where aggregate wealth is shared fairly equally rather than being owned by a few. Let us give this ideal, this proposition relating to wealthholding for the Revolutionary era from 1776 to 1790, a title of romantic equality.

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