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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…
April 24, 2025
Not Local Enough: The Montgomery County Public Schools Case
…Ukrainian Orthodox parents, are looking to the nation’s highest court to discipline their local school board. Historically, it has been conservatives defending local government as a bulwark of democracy, while…
April 23, 2025
In Case of Emergency, Open Block Grant: Part 2
…reviews the history of the TANF block grant, including savings federal taxpayers have experienced since its creation and responses to those who argue block grants undermine the “automatic stabilizer” nature…
April 23, 2025
In Case of Emergency, Open Block Grant: Part 1
…reviews the history of the TANF block grant, including savings federal taxpayers have experienced since its creation and responses to those who argue block grants undermine the “automatic stabilizer” nature…
April 21, 2025
The City That’s Always Working
…mitigation, bias monitoring, regulatory compliance, and external threats. In sectors like finance, health care and national security, the stakes have a way of focusing the mind. Governance models developed by…