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  • Why Progressives Are Wrong to Long for Danish Welfare | Opinion

    01/12/2022 11:46:15 PM PST · by blueplum · 14 replies
    Newsweek ^ | 12 January 2022 | JAMES HECKMAN
    Democrats are doing their best to advance President Biden's $2 trillion "Build Back Better" agenda. The bill is being heralded as an engine of economic mobility for American families, and includes things like paid family leave and universal pre-K, which would be firsts for America. In making the case for these programs, progressives often draw on the Danish welfare state for inspiration, with its low levels of income inequality and high levels of mobility in income across generations... Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), a staunch supporter of Build Back Better, regularly points to Denmark as the model welfare state. But Sanders...