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November 10, 2024
The Risks of Nonprofit Local Journalism
…potential readers. Indeed, in my time as a general-assignment reporter, circa 1973, for the Middletown (NY) Times-Herald Record, I won my spurs, after my probationary period, by covering the travails of…
November 9, 2024
NYC Safe Injection Sites Reduce OD Deaths—but Not in the Worst Neighborhoods
…encouragement rather than prevention. Are the OnPoint Centers treating established addicts or encouraging new ones? Langone and Brown must look at who is being served over time—the same addicts or…
November 1, 2024
Latest Student Loan Cancellation Proposal Could Be Biggest Yet
…be different this time. The new plan offers loan cancellation to borrowers experiencing “hardship.” If you’re wondering what “hardship” means, so am I. It is unclear who exactly would be…
October 25, 2024
How Workforce Education Can Boost Earnings and Fill Jobs
…sign up for a course beginning next week if you choose. Many programs hold classes on weekends to accommodate working learners. At the time of this writing, students could select…
October 21, 2024
US Tariffs Will Not Bring Back Jobs from China
…Governor Tim Walz and Ohio Senator J.D. Vance earlier this month highlighted a point of bipartisan consensus in a heated election contest. After clashing over topics ranging from health care…
October 18, 2024
Harris and Trump Are Equally Silent on the Expanding US Debt
…output for the first time since the US military build-up in the second world war. In 1946, the ratio of debt to annual GDP was 106.1 per cent. The CBO…
October 15, 2024
Lefty NYC Council Add-Ons to Mayor’s ‘City of Yes’ Would Worse Housing Crisis
…such demands. It’s time for the city’s elected officials to acknowledge that our perennial “housing crisis” is actually the result of generations of such action plans — from NYCHA to rent stabilization…
October 15, 2024
Why Should the US Wish to Be More Like China?
…to Chinese manufacturing using protectionist measures. To take one example of many, check out this headline and subhead on a New York Times article from this spring: “How China Pulled So Far Ahead…
October 14, 2024
Another Terrible Idea: Abolishing Child Welfare
…children are experiencing longer periods of time living with abusive and neglectful families. These effects—unlike, say, the crime and disorder caused by defunding the police—are largely hidden from public view….
October 11, 2024
It’s time to face up to our social poverty problem
Over the past half-century, virtually all aspects of social life have deteriorated in America. We spend less time with fewer friends, form fewer families and have turned away from organized civic life and religious institutions. We trust…