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September 18, 2023
There’s an Easy Fix That Would Solve Our Housing Crisis: Light Touch Density
…increases the supply of housing for middle-income households, when what we have now is the opposite—long-standing exclusionary zoning laws that limit most areas of the nation to single-family detached homes,…
September 15, 2023
What Does a Good Economy Look Like?
…workers regaining more ground. But the sourness of public opinion on the economy seems to match up pretty well with Furman’s estimates. At the very least, no matter where we stand relative…
September 14, 2023
The Privilege Hiding in Plain Sight
…public-school teacher asks you and your seventh-grade classmates to stand side by side in a line. The instructor lists a series of personal attributes and says that you must take…
September 12, 2023
Please, Gen Z Aren’t “Doomed to be the First Generation of Americans Who Will Grow Up with a Lower Standard of Living Than Their Parents”
…will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The…
August 21, 2023
Four Shocking Truths about the American Economy! (Well, Shocking to Some.)
…market income is a comprehensive measure of living standards that considers the impact of taxes and social transfers on people’s economic well-being — increased by 7 percent from 1990 to…
August 2, 2023
Measuring Social Capital: Can We Tell If Some Places Are Richer in Social Capital Than Others?
The concept of social capital has been inconsistently defined and described.[1]That should not be surprising, given that social capital is intangible and not easily measured. (The same is true of…
July 18, 2023
The Great Recession, COVID-19, Interest Hikes Left a 15-Year Mark on Housing
…prices so high – during the last decade were interest rates that were very low by historical standards. As the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to fend off a recession…
June 30, 2023
The U.S. Could Learn a Lot from This School in the U.K.
…for affordable private schools to sprout and take root in this country. If there’s ever going to be a serious challenge to the standard American paradigm of schooling with the…
June 26, 2023
Why There Are So Few Black Kids at Stuyvesant: Private Schools and Charter Schools Pull Top Students Out of the System
…the number of high-performing Black students in charter and Catholic schools, it leaves very few able to meet the academic standards to gain admissions to the specialized public high schools….
June 22, 2023
The Cost of Thriving Has Fallen: Correcting and Rejecting the American Compass Cost-of-Thriving Index
…group fell by 7.5 weeks. These improvements aside, we reject the COTI approach as inadequate for assessing changes in living standards. While Cass’s estimates imply that male earnings have fallen…