Re:Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising
by cambalache on Thursday February 18, 2021 @10:30PM
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The article you provided are from the same people who deny global warming(The Heartland Institute). Dr. Henrique Schneider is a conservative Austrian (as in the school) economist with loony ideas about science:
https://ecaef.org/the-anthropocene-fallacy-learning-from-wro...
So allow me to be quite skeptic about the quality and validity of his "research"
Re:Share of U.S. workers holding multiple jobs is rising
by bhupy on Friday February 19, 2021 @07:58AM
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Presented without comment: http://www.paulgraham.com/disagree.html
Here's one study, reviewed jointly by Dr. Henrique Schneider, professor of economics at Nordakademie University in Germany and the chief economist of the Swiss Federation of Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: https://fee.org/articles/the-poorest-20-of-americans-are-ric...
In the US, we have welfare programs that target the poor (yes, some slip through the cracks unfortunately). Once you account for all taxes, transfers, and non-welfare benefits, the poorest 20% are on average richer than most European nations. This is measured by looking at annual per capita consumption among the bottom 20%.