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February 13, 2023
The Eerie Familiarity of California’s Boom-Bust Cycle
…Jersey who had taken up residence near Sutter’s Fort in northeast California, was attempting to establish a timber mill to feed burgeoning construction in nearby Sacramento and, farther afield, the…
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…
February 1, 2023
The Change in Poverty from 1995 to 2016 Among Single‐Parent Families
…over time. Second, there are many income sources for which we were unable to bring in administrative data to correct for increased survey underreporting over time. A notable example is Temporary…
January 24, 2023
“Gig,” Contract, and Nontraditional Workers
…earners. Among lower-income workers, gig work is often full-time. As income rises, such work becomes more supplementary to other full-time work. At the low end of the income distribution, gig…
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…
January 3, 2023
Systemic Disadvantage
…8.6 million. Thus whites, by sheer weight of numbers, absorb the bulk of programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. At the same time, the relative intensity of black poverty…
January 3, 2023
Perspective: Women Are More Likely to Make Friends at Work Than Men. Here’s Why That Matters
…of these occupations are also disproportionately male. It’s fair to question how much women are dedicating their time and energy to these pursuits out of their own volition, because of…
January 1, 2023
Perspective: Is your boss on your DOS? How remote work monitoring can work
…time with families who experienced death than they were for spending time with patients and families while the individual was still alive. In essence, monitoring incentives encouraged chaplains to leave…
December 15, 2022
The Myth of Income Stagnation
…was over three times faster from 1990 to 2019 than it was from 1979, the year CBO’s data begin, to 1990. The BLS’s wage data go back further. They show…