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October 30, 2023
Does Wage Theft Vary by Demographic Group? Evidence from Minimum Wage Increases
Using Current Population Survey data, we assess whether and to what extent the burden of wage theft — wage payments below the statutory minimum wage — falls disproportionately on various…
October 27, 2023
Food Insecurity in the US and Inflation
…Although the changes to the survey were minor (i.e. changing the order of questions, changing the phrasing of certain questions, etc.), even small changes can affect statistics in large national…
October 27, 2023
What Happened to the American Dream?
…of national well-being, such as life expectancy, fared worse” in America than elsewhere. But to the extent that broadly shared prosperity depends on having rising wealth to share and redistribute…
October 27, 2023
What liberals don’t understand about men and marriage
…of men who end up becoming fathers and forging day-in-day-out relationships with their children. Brad Wilcox, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and director of the National…
October 26, 2023
New Report Sheds Light on Expansive Biden Student Loan Forgiveness Scheme
…more forceful accountability measures, this ill-conceived policy will only exacerbate the existing challenges in higher education finance that have brought the issue to the forefront of our national political discourse….
October 25, 2023
The Freedom to Choose
…(I have no idea if he thinks of himself as a NatCon), attributes the loss of family-supporting manufacturing jobs to globalization and, by extension, globalist elites bent on surrendering national sovereignty and gaining profits at…
October 24, 2023
Testimony: The Consequences of Redrawing the Poverty Line
…much is “enough” can be determined by science. If the SPM were elevated to the “nation’s headline poverty statistic,” the key recommendation of a recent National Academies of Sciences, Engineering,…
October 24, 2023
Testimony: Hearing on Measuring Poverty
…have worked for or been a long-term advisor to the main federal agencies producing poverty statistics. This hearing is occurring because a recent National Academy of Sciences report commissioned by…
October 24, 2023
Roanoke Atones for Urban Renewal—Artistically
…more impressive. It deserves a grant to enable production of a formal exhibition catalog, along with a reproduction of the 1995 Roanoke Times section. It deserves to travel, including to the National…
October 23, 2023
Teach Your Children Well
…kids nature documentaries, though even those she is particular about and has recommendations for ones that include more interesting language. Moskowitz is definitely not of the school—which has gained much…