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May 12, 2023

Follow the Money as Hochul Floats Tobacco Ban While Pushing Legal Marijuana

…Albany Times-Union, of the $16 billion in tobacco settlement funds New York State received between 1999 and 2021, just $920 million went for “tobacco control,” including those legitimately frightening television…

May 10, 2023

AI Tutoring Has a Lot to Offer. But so Does Human Mentoring.

…lots of different measures, that Americans were joining fewer groups and spending more time in solo activities than they used to. Today, kids are enmeshed in fewer social networks, as they’re…

May 6, 2023

SNAP Needs a Healthy Overhaul

…obese. Moreover, half of this group described their health as fair or poor—more than four times the rate reported by higher-income Americans in the same age group. Mental health challenges…

May 5, 2023

Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription

…or even full-time jobs, and aren’t homeless. Among poor adults aged 18 to 64, less than 10 percent worked full-time, year-round in 2021. Less than 2 percent of poor people are homeless at any…

May 1, 2023

Here’s How Hochul Can Salvage Her Goal of More Affordable Housing in NY

…What’s more, the switch to all-electric at the same time she’s pushing for a switch to unreliable power sources — think wind and solar — means not only higher power…

March 31, 2023

AI and the Future of Work: Preparing the Workforce for an AI-Driven Economy

…incomes. This hopeful view is not the same thing, however, as saying that new technology, like artificial intelligence, will be all upside for every worker, all the time, everywhere. The…

February 14, 2023

Microsoft Is Getting Ready to Eat Google’s Lunch

…over time, partly thanks to improvements in Wikipedia’s rules and partly because of the vast expansion of its crowdsourcing contributor base—and now Wikipedia is, for the most part, as good…

February 8, 2023

Where the Tech Layoffs Are Hitting Hardest

…with HR. And, at the same time Zuckerberg was talking about “efficiency,” his chief technology officer, Andrew Bozworth, posted to his personal blog that Facebook’s charity-focused endeavors had become a distraction that…

February 2, 2023

Prioritizing Money Over Marriage, Today’s Parents Are Making a Big Mistake

…having kids as beneficial life goals when you haven’t witnessed many good marriages yourself. Men and women are spending less time in marriage over the course of their life than…

January 7, 2023

Personal Responsibility, Not Victimhood, Is the Path to Success

…Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies. The sequence entails three steps: (a) getting at least a high-school degree, (b) working full-time, and (c) marrying before having children. Young…