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| Israel: A Social Report 2012
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| Dr. Shlomo Swirski, Etty Konor-Atias , May 6 2013 |
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This annual update of the Social Report appears at the height of the Israeli election season, held early because of government fears that it would not be able to mobilize a majority to pass a budget bill that
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| Israel's Middle Class 1992-2010: Who are we talking about?
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| Noga Dagan-Buzaglo and Etty Konor-Attias , April 9 2013 |
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who talk about the middle class are often referring to very different people. This
report clarifies the term, examining Israel's middle stratum at three points in
time: 1992, 2002, and 2010. The report looks at the middle stratum in Israel
from the point of view of income distribution , home ownership, ethnicity,
occupation, education, and place of residence, among others.
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| The Middle Class Needs to Take Control of its Money
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| Dr. Shlomo Swirski , September 13 2012 |
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| On the Crisis of the Western Middle Class |
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| Public Health is Suffering from Neglect
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| Barbara Swirski , September 12 2012 |
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Towards the National Budget Proposal for Fiscal 2013: The First of
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Adva
Center Reports on Budgetary Goals and Trends |
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| The Rich Had a Party – and Now the Middle Class is to Foot the Bill
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| Adva Center , July 30 2012 |
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| The middle class is now being asked to foot the bill for the tax cuts that high earners enjoyed over the last decade. |
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| 2012 report: The Burden of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict for Israel
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| Dr.Shlomo Swirski , May 30 2012 |
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Forty-five years into Israel's domination of the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967, the Adva Center published its bi-annual report on the burden of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, written by Dr. Shlomo Swirski. The report examines the economic, social, political and diplomatic burden of the conflict for Israel. |
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| all economy and budget articles |
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| Israel: A Social Report – 2011
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| Dr.Shlomo Swirski and Etty Konor-Atias , December 17 2011 |
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| The report shows that in 2010 there was a small increase in the income of most Israeli households, bringing their income back to its 2008 level. It also reveals that at the same time, inequality continued to grow. The report features developments over the past year as well as over the past decade. |
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| What Needs to be Done?
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| Adva Center , October 25 2011 |
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Recommendations One Will Not Find in the Trachtenberg Commission Report |
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| Central Government Transfers to the Settlements Still Higher than to Localities Within the Green Line
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| Shlomo Swirski, Etty Konor-Attias and Arianne Ofir , September 17 2011 |
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The main finding is that on a per capita basis, central government transfers to the settlements continue to be higher than the average for local authorities within Israel proper, especially in comparison with Jewish development towns, Arab localities and Forum-15 cities. |
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| The Rat Race and The March Of Folly
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| Dr. Shlomo Swirski , July 31 2011 |
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Young middle class people, aware of the new standards, realize that this is a race they cannot win, a race that turns them into rats caught in a maze. In the 1960s, American students called it the rat race. |
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