These transfer payments flattered America's current-account balance in 1991 and so helped to lift the dollar.
For the top fifth, by contrast, such transfer payments represented less than 2% of household income.
When government expenditures take the form of bailouts and transfer payments, the results are even worse.
Nova Scotia's John Hamm wants increased federal transfer payments for health and social provision.
Economically, those purchases are treated as pure transfer payments, no different than any other form of shopping.
The jobs gone elsewhere also result in much of our transfer payments for unemployment and food stamps.
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Although debt-financed transfer payments may make insurance look cheaper, they do not change its true social cost.
It would reduce transfer payments to individuals and build government coffers lessening the cost as a percentage of entitlements.
Second, we should see roughly the same phenomenon resulting from intra-family transfer payments.
In other places, the influx of federal transfer payments kept incomes from falling much further than they would have.
Increasing transfer payments, like 99-week unemployment benefits, account for 73% of that growth.
Republicans would like to use the crisis to cut transfer payments and government employee pensions and benefits way back.
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More important, they make transfer payments through programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps, unemployment insurance, and housing vouchers.
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It's the result of unconstitutional government efforts to subsidize with transfer payments and tax breaks a lot of wasteful spending.
Higher unemployment and lower wages also mean increased spending on means tested transfer payments including unemployment benefits and food stamps.
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Since Krugman believes that more transfer payments will pay for themselves, he must, perforce, believe tax cuts pay for themselves.
Transfer payments are not reported as income on tax returns, so all of this income for lower income households is missed.
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It is not selling any of its vast land holdings to provide resources to fund increased transfer payments to individuals or corporations.
As Reynolds reports, most income received by the bottom fifth of households is from such transfer payments, nearly 80% in 2001, for example.
But the measures of income usually reported as showing rising inequality do not even include such transfer payments in their definition of income.
The committee generally also studies another monthly indicator of economy-wide activity, personal income less transfer payments, in real terms, adjusted for price changes.
Efforts by Arizona authorities to fight the violence include intercepting wire transfer payments to smugglers of drugs and of human beings, Goddard said.
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Despite gigantic debt-fueled government transfer payments, Americans are suffering from a five-year stagnation in inflation-adjusted disposable income, which is expected to continue into 2014.
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Those households relying more heavily on income from work will prosper faster during such times, leaving those relying primarily on transfer payments falling farther behind.
Among the 134 metro areas that saw personal incomes rise, most of the gains were from big jumps in transfer payments, the Commerce Department said.
Finnish demographer Anna Rotkirch has pointed out that Europeans have tried to mitigate the impact of recession through generous transfer payments to young families.
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Not the case for our transfer payments and direct government purchases.
Out of a total population of 5.6 million, a little more than 2 million are pensioners, unemployed, sick or on social transfer payments for other reasons.
Even if we were to tolerate the folly of redistribution, for instance through taxation and welfare transfer payments, this is merely the least offensive socialist idea.
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How long that lasts is another question: The cable-rights fees are effectively transfer payments that the clubs pay themselves from the MASN books to their own.
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