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November 27, 2023
Bribing Homeowners To Build Tiny Houses Won’t Solve NYC’s Housing Problem
…affordability of its pre-zoning standard of two- and three-family homes. (Although Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is toying with bringing back the housing insanity called rent control, guaranteed to limit new…
November 27, 2023
How AI with “Theory of Mind” Could Help in the Workplace
…robust ToM emerges in AI systems, will the human-machine distinction be lost? Have we arrived at the abolition of man? Here I’ll insert the standard caveat: Like many technologies, AI has…
November 16, 2023
“Harm Reduction” Is No Solution
…Quetcy Lozada, who introduced the legislation in May, addressed the public outside of City Hall with a group of councilmembers standing behind her. “It is not fair to the children…
November 16, 2023
Work in a World of Abundance
…trillion sloshing around the economy, people find ways of housing, feeding, and clothing themselves without working. But life without work can be downright disastrous when looked at from standpoints like…
November 14, 2023
Forget the Economics of Grievance
…But Trump’s successes were deviations from his brand of nationalism-populism. Indeed, the two major economic policy accomplishments of the Trump years were standard conservative economic fare: needed reform of the…
November 14, 2023
Did Child Poverty Really Increase Last Year?
…ate into living standards. No ARP, no expanded CTC, but also less inflation. The bottom line is that economic hardship among children was never before as low as it was…
November 13, 2023
How The IRS Discourages Boomer Charity
…and Jobs Act of 2017. The latter — its many virtues aside — has led some 90% of taxpayers to file for the “standard” deduction, eliminating their incentive to itemize…
November 11, 2023
Why is NYC Telling Teachers to Not Keep Kids Safe?
…that a student is missing school, coming in late or arriving unkempt and hungry. To them, the family may simply need some extra cash or a referral to standard support…
November 2, 2023
How Churches Can Make a Difference in the Lives of Children Who Need Foster Care
…who is in need of foster care and may want to provide it. So what are the obstacles standing in their way? According to Gallup, one is money. Black Americans…
October 31, 2023
It Takes Two
…effects of single parenthood? As Kearney notes, the gold standard in research is a randomized controlled trial in which there is a very specific “treatment” given to one group and…