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Daily Archive for March 1st, 2011

Fun Facts to Continue Knowing and Telling

Posted in Fun Facts, Health Care on Mar 1st, 2011

I’ve mentioned it several times before, but it bears repeating. In no country in the developed world do “consumers” of health care pay a smaller share of medical expenditures out of pocket than the United States. Or, let me repeat this one more time: For every $1 spent on health care in the United States, […]

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Employment Tax Penalties

Posted in labor markets, Unintended Consequences on Mar 1st, 2011

Radio ads here in Rochester have been touting the “new” employment tax credits that have come from Washington, DC. The idea is that for firms that hire currently unemployed workers and keep them employed for a long-enough time period, they will receive a credit on their tax liabilities. Let’s not think of the labor economics […]

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