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May 7, 2025
Did ‘China Shock’ Throw Millions of Americans Out of Work?
…papers, concluding that the effects they find are small relative to the claimed impact on community life and national politics; that the negative effects found in subsequent papers that have…
May 5, 2025
What’s in House Republicans’ Student Loan Overhaul
…programs like medicine have a limit of $150,000. These loans are currently unlimited. Annual loan limits are equal to the median cost of attendance for similar programs nationally, minus any…
May 2, 2025
SNAP is About Nutrition: My Response to Zycher
…households. Congress further finds that increased utilization of food in establishing and maintaining adequate national levels of nutrition will promote the distribution in a beneficial manner of the Nation’s agricultural…
May 2, 2025
Without Qualified Workers, Our CHIPS Investments Could Be Money Down the Drain
…of advanced chips from 37 percent to 10 percent, this “industrial policy” investment was justified as necessary for national security and as a measure to reinvigorate manufacturing. To date, Congress…
May 1, 2025
Tariffs Plus AI Makes for a Rocky Job Market. How Should Workers Prepare?
…work rather than augmentation. Labor is almost always the largest expense of any business, and there’s a natural tendency to seek ways of restraining those costs to improve the bottom…
April 29, 2025
Good Jobs, Strong Families: How the Character of Men’s Work Is Linked to Their Family Status
…communities, especially across America’s “Rust Belt,” experienced significant disinvestment and fell into blight. These economic shifts, both in the Rust Belt and nationwide, took a devastating toll. They pushed working-class…
April 28, 2025
Letter to the Editor: Sugary Treats Shouldn’t Be on the SNAP Menu
…their own money. The rationale for restricting SNAP purchases lies in ensuring that this taxpayer-funded program is aligned with its purpose. President Richard Nixon nationalized the food-stamp program in 1973 to address…
April 28, 2025
You Autor Know
…al. measure, but replacing “domestic purchases of output” with “total employment” in the first sentence: If national imports within some industry double relative to initial national total employment in the industry, that’s…
April 25, 2025
What’s holding women back from starting a family?
…at the University of Virginia for the National Marriage Project’s spring conference, cosponsored with the Wheatley Institute. Cooper is 23 and had celebrated her one-year anniversary the week before the event….
April 25, 2025
A baby bonus is the wrong response to declining fertility
…longer enough to replace dying Americans. A declining population puts stress on social insurance programs, threatens the aggregate economic strength of the United States—with potential risks to national security—and denies…