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Senior man calculating finances

If you believe, as I do, that higher taxes should be part of solving the nation’s debt and deficit problems, then the fiscal cliff should be viewed as an opportunity as well as a threat.  Including taxes as part of the solution is hardly an extreme position; both the Bowles-Simpson and the Domenici-Rivlin plans includ…

Senior man working at laptop at home

Abstract This paper examines the role of ethnic networks in disability program take-up among working-age immigrants in the United States. We find that even when controlling for country of origin and area of residence fixed effects, immigrants residing amidst a large number of co-ethnics are more likely to receive disability payments when their ethnic groups…