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How to strengthen housing safety nets U.S. homeowners and renters need stronger safety nets than existing social insurance programs provide to prevent housing insecurity during economic downturns, according to a new paper based on a study by Wharton real estate professor Benjamin Keys and co-authors at the University of Notre Dame and New York University. In their paper “Bolstering the Housing Safety Net: The Promise of Automatic Stabilizers,” the authors propose policy reforms that could help people stay in their homes during times of economic distress and support affordable housing cons...

Probably going to be safe in preserving a veto here. but i'd like to get your reaction here to what it means to be lifting these economic sanctions on iran and the timetable for doing that which is not immediate. >> yeah. you know there's kind of an interesting wrinkle in the agreement about that. that they are going to lift the sanctions. i think most experts who look at sanctions recognize that sanctions are not really effective at regime change. you can look at cuba at north korea, at the soviet union, you could look at iran. we've had sanctions for long periods of time without regime chang...

Slowly. it's particularly tough for people who live in areas where there has not been much job creation. so yeah, historically, ever since canes, we have recognized that there are times when temporarily you need to borrow as the economy gets going again, that's when you bring your budget deficit down. the fact that we have gotten it backwards has really hurt us. >> you have studied our collective intelligence as a society and there seems to have been a decline in this particular area where there was once a much larger agreement and a much larger bipartisan agreement about how unemployment paym...

Once a much larger agreement and a much larger bipartisan agreement about how unemployment payments function especially in a recession. automatic stabilizers was the accepted term for what they are. an unemomental term but both sides saw it that way for a long time. >> unemployment insurance was always considered separate from other welfare programs. so food stamps or cash payments, tanif as we know it now. and now they have been lumped together. even though people have lost their jobs through no fault of their own, that means to most folks on the right that they are the undeserving poor. that...

>> oh, i will deal with it. >> the reality of the facts are that -- >> the reality of the facts? >> the real facts, bob, okay? are that this administration spent $5 trillion. >> no, that's wrong. that's wrong. a lot of it is automatic stabilizers. >> let him get his point out so i can go to the break. >> bob, let me finish my point. >> it's a lie. >> it's not a lie. the debt was $10 trillion on the day obama was inaugurated. what is it today? it's almost $6 trillion. so who spent that money? who spent the money? >> because of the bush economic collapse. it went into unemployment compensation -...