Covering the Economy: Readings for February 21: Federal Reserve/Poverty and Income

Federal Reserve: Loose Ends

• Was Bernanke willing to give advice about fiscal policy? Yes http://washingtontimes.com/op-ed/20060217-092129-2949r.htm or no http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/15/AR2006021500825_pf.html
• Greg Ip pulls it all together http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2006/02/covering_the_ec_4.html

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Poverty and Incomes

• Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance in the United States 2004 http://www.census.gov/prod/2005pubs/p60-229.pdf
• Effect of taxes and transfers http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/18/national/18poverty.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print, http://www.census.gov/hhes/www/poverty/effect2004/effectofgovtandt2004.html
• Rising poverty rates http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0831/p02s01-usec.html
• What are government policies doing? Economic Policy Institute's take: http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/issueguides_poverty_povertyfaq, http://www.epi.org/content.cfm/webfeatures_snapshots_20060217, http://www.epinet.org/issueguides/poverty/ima/hia/table4.gif, http://www.epinet.org/issueguides/poverty/ima/hia/table3.gif, http://www.epinet.org/issueguides/poverty/ima/hia/table2.gif