It mixes benefits that mostly go to the poor (food stamps) with agricultural subsidies that mostly go to the rich (crop subsidies for large farms).
Age mixing benefits the older children as well as the younger.
Like most things, playing it has a mix of benefit and risk.
This is what makes George Osborne's mix of benefit cuts and a higher minimum wage so potent.
Washington has been reluctant to touch Social Security, which last went through major changes in 1983, after a bipartisan commission tried to assure its long-term solvency through a mix of benefit reductions cuts and tax increases.
The center's plan is also sounder on Social Security, ensuring the system's long-term solvency with a generally modest mix of benefit reductions and tax increases that protects middle-income retirees.
Baruch Fischhoff, a professor of decision sciences at Carnegie Mellon, thinks that older boys may see a mix of benefits in Gardasil.
Similar savings could be achieved by larger companies, the study found, although the mix of benefits might be different because companies with more than 200 employees are not automatically eligible for some incentives.
"Traditionally, companies competed by leading the competition, but now employers are focusing on the mix" of benefits, said George T. Milkovich, the Martin P. Catherwood professor of human resource management at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University.
