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How Marginal Tax Rates Affect Families at Various Levels of Poverty

How Marginal Tax Rates Affect Families at Various Levels of Poverty, Elaine Maag, C. Eugene Steuerle, Caleb Quakenbush, Ritadhi Chakravarti, December 20, 2012

  • “High marginal tax rates can make moving above poverty very difficult for low-income families. These high tax rates result from increasing direct taxes and decreasing transfer payments. A single parent with two children who increases her wages from poverty-level to 150 percent of poverty-level can face a tax rate between 26.6 percent and over 100 percent, depending on which state she lives in. In addition, her marginal tax rate can vary radically, depending on her earning pattern. This paper shows how sensitive marginal tax rates are to assumptions about state of residence, earning patterns, and program participation.”
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  • The State, Civil Society and Religious Freedom

    Brink, Jaco Van den and Ten Napel, Hans-Martien, The State, Civil Society and Religious Freedom (December 12, 2012). Oxford Journal of Law and Religion 2012. Available at SSRN: “How is the legal principle of religious freedom supposed to regulate the relationship between state and religion, especially in cases where state and religion seem to make… Continue Reading

    European Data Protection Supervisor – safeguarding data protection rights

    December 17, 2012: “the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) published his Report on the Status of Data Protection Officers (DPOs) as part of his ongoing task to monitor the compliance of EU institutions and bodies with Article 24 of the European Data Protection Regulation, which obliges the appointment of DPOs…Article 24 of the Data Protection… Continue Reading

    NIST's online Atomic Spectra Database

    The NIST Physical Measurement Laboratory – online Atomic Spectra Database “provides the most authoritative information about atomic spectra available anywhere, and it is used by researchers worldwide. But how wide, exactly, is that world? What elements and wavelengths are in highest demand by different groups? And how can the ASD better serve its user community?… Continue Reading

    An Efficient Sampling Alternative for Big Data Aggregation

    Data Interpolation – An Efficient Sampling Alternative for Big Data Aggregation (Technical Report) Hadassa Daltrophe, Shlomi Dolevy, Zvi Lotkerz. October 12, 2012 “Given a large set of measurement sensor data, in order to identify a simple function that captures the essence of the data gathered by the sensors, we suggest representing the data by (spatial)… Continue Reading