Source: Niskanen Center
by Jacob Bastian

“Understanding how government programs affect people in different places is crucial in helping policymakers determine how and where to target public assistance. For example, to maximize the positive impact of government policies on social welfare, policymakers could focus transfers on areas where assistance yields the greatest benefits. One relatively new metric for measuring the impact of policies on social welfare is the Marginal Value of Public Funds (MVPF). The MVPF for any policy change is the ratio of the benefits provided to recipients per dollar to the policy’s net cost to the government per dollar.” (07/25/24)

https://www.niskanencenter.org/where-in-the-u-s-is-the-eitcs-bang-per-buck-biggest

Source: The Nation
by John Nichols

“There is a good case to be made that the best way to defeat Donald Trump and J.D. Vance is to simply let Vance keep talking. The Republican vice presidential nominee has a way of expressing himself that could charitably be defined as ‘cringeworthy.’ Consider the recently resurfaced 2021 interview Vance did with Tucker Carlson, in which the man who is now Trump’s running mate expressed his view that the problem facing America is elected leaders who have not given birth — including the woman who is now the presumptive presidential nominee of the Democratic Party: Vice President Kamala Harris. ‘We’re effectively run in this country, via the Democrats, via our corporate oligarchs, by a bunch of childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives and the choices that they’ve made and so they want to make the rest of the country miserable too,’ Vance argued.” (07/25/24)

https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/andy-beshear-jd-vance-vice-president/

Source: The Hartmann Report
by Thom Hartmann

“Minnesota Governor Tim Walz on Tuesdday blasted JD Vance for being a ‘grifter’, because Vance claimed he was some sort of a hillbilly who grew up in rural Appalachia when, in fact, he grew up in the suburbs of Cincinnati. Governor Walz, on the other hand, grew up in a town of 400 people with ’24 kids in my graduating class’ where ’12 were cousins.’ In Vance’s autobiography Hillbilly Elegy he trash-talks his poor relatives, essentially accusing them of not being successful in life because of moral defects like laziness and addiction; he doubled down on these memes in his Republican National Convention speech, pointing out his own mother’s drug use. In fact, they’re victims of Republican policies that make the rich richer and keep poor people poor; his mother’s addiction is a symptom, not a cause.” (07/25/24)

https://hartmannreport.com/p/jd-vances-eligy-grift-a05

Source: Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G Hornberger

“Every four years, the American people get giddy and excited over their presidential election. There is a reason for that. In the run-up to the election, the presidential candidates cater to them, are nice to them, and offer them lots of benefits in the hope of garnering their votes. But everyone knows that come November 6 — the day after the election — the situation will return to normal, with an abusive ruler in charge and the serfs deferentially and obediently serving him or her for the next four years.” (07/25/24)

https://www.fff.org/2024/07/25/why-americans-get-so-giddy-about-their-presidential-election/

Source: The New Republic
by Edith Olmsted

“Some Republicans are starting to seriously regret Donald Trump’s vice presidential nominee, Ohio Senator J.D. Vance. It’s been only one week since Vance was nominated at the Republican National Convention, and already his own party members are expressing severe doubts about Trump’s pick. The former president’s allies have acknowledged that nominating Vance was the product of Trump’s absolute certainty that he would be able to defeat Joe Biden in November. While Vance wouldn’t do much for swing voters or independents, he would likely shore up support among Trump’s base. But ever since Biden passed the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party’s new presumptive nominee, Republicans have begun to sour on Vance.” (07/25/24)

https://newrepublic.com/post/184251/republicans-trump-jd-vance-mistake-biden-kamala-harris