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May 23, 2023
An Unexpected Role for AI in the Workplace
…difficult to explain, replicate, and transfer through formal training processes. A recent study by a team including Stanford economist Erik Brynjolfsson suggests that we may resolve Polanyi’s Paradox by opening up a…
May 23, 2023
Public Housing Should Have Work Rules, Too
…to comply or face the possibility of eviction (though that is unlikely). The effects, by the standards of social science research, must be viewed as stunningly positive, as summarized in…
May 23, 2023
Biden Courts Another Mortgage Crisis
…the threat of foreclosure or proper underwriting standards is ultimately an entitlement program. If such a program were established, it would be here to stay—and would most likely grow. What…
May 10, 2023
The Effects of Elevating the Supplemental Poverty Measure on Government Program Eligibility and Spending
…This change to the official poverty measure could be made as soon as September 2023, and major government transfer programs whose eligibility standards are tied to the official poverty guidelines…
May 6, 2023
SNAP Needs a Healthy Overhaul
…primary purposes improving nutrition and requiring the USDA to report on diet quality annually. Another crucial step is to establish nutrition standards in SNAP, as other federal nutrition programs already do. Participants…
May 1, 2023
Promoting Mobility Through SNAP: Toward Better Health and Employment Outcomes
…al. 2015; Mande and Flaherty 2023). Unlike other federal food assistance programs, SNAP has no nutritional standards, allowing participants to purchase any food or beverage product intended for consumption, except…
May 1, 2023
Closing Young Minds
…Edwin Poston, noted that its members “did not take issue with the trustee’s personally held beliefs” but objected because the legal positions taken by ADF “took a stand against treasured…
April 28, 2023
Social Capital: What Is It?
Words and phrases, as they say, can do a lot of work. Sometimes, evocative terms can be useful even if they paper over imprecise concepts or obscure definitional disagreement. But…
April 17, 2023
Data Tools 6: The Geography of Traditional Families in America
…Or you can download the dataset just to see where your current PUMA stands. To my knowledge, you won’t find comparable numbers anywhere else. Download the Dataset Read the Full…
April 6, 2023
Stop the AI Pause
…regulations, agency recall authority for defective products, and targeted sectoral regulations already govern algorithmic systems, creating enforcement avenues through our courts and by common law standards allowing for development of…