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December 2, 2025
What To Do About Benefit Cliffs?
…will help those capable of working get the help they need, without preventing them from working their way up the income ladder. Angela Rachidi and Matt Weidinger are both Rowe…
December 1, 2025
Apocalypse Not
…the US figure ($69,810). Jeremy Horpedahl noted on X.com that median family income in Essex County for a married couple with children was $174,644 in 2024—nearly one-third higher than the national median of $132,959….
November 30, 2025
Our Economy Is Not Stagnant
…That raises the 2023 median to $62,000. Accounting for fringe benefits lifts the amount to $70,000, and adding back the earnings taken away by employer taxes leaves the median at…
November 27, 2025
The Real Math of Survival?
…floors. Indeed, medians should not be floors. By definition, half of families will have incomes below median family income. If the median is the floor, half of families will be…
November 26, 2025
How Not to Redefine Poverty
…on food in 2023. (See here for 2023 and here for 1960, then adjust the latter for inflation using this index.) But average family income rose by over $85,000 in inflation-adjusted dollars and median family income by…
November 21, 2025
Hungary’s Fertility Outcomes Highlight Pro-Natal Policy Limitations
…2015 peak, Russian TFR began to decline, despite a major 2020 program expansion that made the benefit available to mothers of firstborns and resumed indexing benefits. Today, Russian fertility is…
November 19, 2025
Real Estate Red Flag: How Hidden Blue-State Policies are Pricing Out Homeowners
…bills can be eye-popping: the median in middle-class Rockland County tops $14,000 a year. Democratic-run cities such as Houston and Atlanta also show high delinquency rates. All of which is to say…
November 13, 2025
Is the US Really an Outlier on Pregnancy Deaths, and Have Such Deaths Spiked?
…Using this estimate, US maternal mortality is comparable to reported UK mortality, and lower than reported Canadian mortality (compare to Figure 1, above). It’s also comparable to the OECD average.[1]…
October 15, 2025
Don’t Choose Your Own Adventure: Understanding Middle-Class Earnings Trends
…Consider the change in median earnings over the 50-year period from 1973 to 2023. The median refers to the earnings of the “typical” person—the one with earnings higher than half…
September 25, 2025
The Golden Age of Public Housing—and Why It Didn’t Last
…overstated. As the historian Kenneth Jackson has noted in Crabgrass Frontier, his discussion of the post–World War II rise of the US suburb, between 1934 and 1960, some 12,166 mortgages were…