Solving the Debt Problem Fairly

2019 ◽  
pp. 85-102
Author(s):  
William G. Gale
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Income ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Economic Mobility ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Debt Problem ◽  
Employment Programs ◽  
The One

Who should pay higher taxes and receive fewer benefits? What’s fair? As explored in Chapter 5, debt, taxes, and spending redistribute resources within and across generations. Addressing the debt problem would help future generations – the nation’s children and grandchildren. It is no longer clear that each generation will be better off than the one before it. This makes it all the more important that each generation controls the debt it leaves to the next generation. The United States used to have high income inequality and significant economic mobility: people who worked hard could ascend the income ladder. In recent years, though, the gap between rich and poor has grown dramatically while rates of mobility haven’t improved. Policymakers should narrow inequalityin ways that are productive and fair, investing more in education, healthcare, nutrition, neighborhoods, and employment programs, and judiciously raising taxes on high-income households.

Introduction and Summary

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Diana Furchtgott-Roth
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Income ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Lively Debate

Few topics are more certain to generate a lively debate among any group of individuals than the causes and consequences of income inequality. Economists are prone to similar, although more reasoned and empirically based, debates. This book is a curated collection of essays that explores a wide range of viewpoints about income inequality in the United States. Neither income nor income inequality is easily measured, and, consequently, economists have different views about what is the best measure. Economists also offer differing explanations for the sources of income inequality and its ultimate consequences, leading to opposing policy implications. Finally, focusing on the United States adds yet another layer of complexity. Americans have unusually high incomes and unusually high income inequality.

Present or Future

2020 ◽  
pp. 107-111
Author(s):  
Alasdair Roberts
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
National Security ◽  
Department Of Defense ◽  
The United States ◽  
Future Generations ◽  
Environmental Damage ◽  
Next Generation ◽  
Present Generation ◽  
National Economies

This chapter looks at how leaders also think about another border as they formulate a strategy for governing. This is the temporal divide between present and future, the invisible line that separates the present generation from the generations that follow. Institutions can be designed to give more weight to the interests of future generations. Indeed, leaders have built institutions with a vested interest in tending to future threats. In the United States, the Department of Defense regularly reviews threats to national security that will likely face the next generation. However, leaders are often driven toward shortsightedness, because they must also respond to more immediate challenges. Any state, democratic or authoritarian, must deal with the reality of competition within the system of states. To maintain security and influence, leaders must keep their national economies growing, even if it causes long-term environmental damage.

scholarly journals Religious Mobility in the United States: The Effects of Income and Economic Mobility on Religious Conversion

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruby Thompson
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Religious Conversion ◽  
General Social Survey ◽  
The United States ◽  
Geographic Mobility ◽  
Economic Mobility ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Socially Constructed ◽  
The One ◽  
Analyze Data

Why do people switch religions? Under the theoretical framework of interactionism theory of conversion, which posits that the interplay between active, negotiated, and socially constructed aspects of human behavior and different aspects of social context lead to religious conversion, I propose that economic mobility and income affect whether or not one chooses to switch religions from the one in which they were raised. I rely on the 2016 General Social Survey (GSS) that was administered to 2,867 randomly selected adults living in households in the United States in 2016. I analyze data from a subset of 1,068 married respondents to examine the effects of economic mobility, income, exogamy, geographic mobility, education, race, age, and sex on religious mobility and apostasy. There are no significant correlations between economic mobility and income with religious mobility or apostasy. The only significant predictor of religious mobility and apostasy is exogamy. Respondents who have married outside of the religion in which they were raised are more likely to be religiously mobile or abandon religion altogether than those who are endogamous. Additionally, older respondents are less likely to abandon religion than younger respondents. My hypothesis is not supported. However, the results support interactionism theory of conversion as exogamy is a significant predictor of religious mobility. These results confirm that the institution of marriage plays a significant role in whether or not someone converts religions; furthermore, the bonds of marriage outweigh one’s bond to the religion in which they were raised.

United States Income, Wealth, Consumption, and Inequality

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Income Inequality ◽  
The United States ◽  
High Income ◽  
Policy Implications ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Lively Debate

Few topics are more certain to generate a lively debate among any group of individuals than the causes and consequences of income inequality. Economists are prone to similar, although more reasoned and empirically based, debates. This book is a curated collection of essays that explore a wide range of viewpoints about income inequality in the United States. Neither income nor income inequality is easily quantified and, consequently, economists have different views about what is the best measure. Economists also offer differing explanations for the sources of income inequality and its ultimate consequences, leading to opposing policy implications. Finally, focusing on the United States adds yet another layer of complexity. America has unusually high income and unusually high income inequality.

Looking for Something to Signify

Screen Bodies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 22-37
Author(s):  
David Yagüe González
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Social Norms ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
The United States ◽  
The One

The behaviors and actions that an individual carries out in their daily life and how they are translated by their society overdetermine the gender one might have—or not—according to social norms. However, do the postulates enounced by feminist and queer Western thinkers still maintain their validity when the context changes? Can the performances of gender carry out their validity when the landscape is other than the one in Europe or the United States? And how can the context of drag complicate these matters? These are the questions that this article will try to answer by analyzing the 2015 movie Viva by Irish director Paddy Breathnach.

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