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February 26, 2026
Young Men’s Earnings over the Long Run – An Update
Let me start with the chart: Median pre-tax earnings of men ages 25-29 rose 24 percent ($10,800) from 1973 to 2024, and median post-tax compensation rose 40 percent ($15,500). The…
February 10, 2026
Trump Houses Are a Good Idea—If
…example the 1146 square foot home in Dalton, Illinois purchased new in 1949 by the parents of the boy who became Pope Leo. The median new house today is more…
December 11, 2025
Trump Family Policy Fails to Deliver at the One-Year Mark
…political career, Vance highlighted fertility decline as a core issue. As a politician, Vance continued to emphasize fertility and family policy, suggesting it’s necessary to “go to war against anti-child…
December 10, 2025
How Misreading Somali Poverty Led Minnesota into Its Largest Welfare Scandal
…Whites. But this is the same state that had extended a warm welcome, through Lutheran and Catholic social service groups, to refugees fleeing the Somalian civil war; by 2024, some…
December 9, 2025
Has Marriage Fallen Because Young Adults Can’t Afford Homes?
…and Public Policy Center and others have pointed to the rise in the median sale price of homes sold relative to median household income. Brown cites an increase in that ratio from…
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…