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December 11, 2023
How Public Housing Encourages Single Parenthood and Penalizes Marriage
…the short-term spike in rents merely dramatizes that essential market failure. It asserts that the “rent burden among families with the lowest incomes is a long-standing issue. . .primarily due…
December 8, 2023
Room for Compromise on the Hot Foods Act
… As it currently stands, SNAP allows recipients to purchase “any food or food product for home consumption except alcohol, tobacco, hot foods, or hot food products ready for immediate consumption…” However,…
December 4, 2023
A Pro-Market and Pro-Social Economy
…good” can be an extremely irritating stance, but that does not make it any less true. In contrast to the wealth that free markets have produced, Gregg argues, state capitalism encourages unproductive rent-seeking behavior, elevates politics in…
December 1, 2023
Unlocking Economic Prosperity: Career Navigation in a Time of Rapid Change
…are broken in the United States, disproportionately affecting Black, Latinx, and Indigenous individuals and those from low-income backgrounds. Disrupting long-standing occupational segregation and improving outcomes for all will require a system…
November 30, 2023
Evaluating the Success of the War on Poverty Since 1963 Using an Absolute Full-Income Poverty Measure
Abstract We evaluate progress in the War on Poverty as President Lyndon B. Johnson defined it, which established a 20% baseline poverty rate and adopted an absolute standard. While the…
November 30, 2023
A Valuable New Perspective on America’s War on Poverty
…of Americans now live in poverty based on President Johnson’s initial standards. And President Johnson’s War on Poverty based on absolute 1960s living standards is largely over and a success….
November 30, 2023
Evaluating the Success of the War on Poverty since 1963 Using an Absolute Full-Income Poverty Measure
Abstract We evaluate progress in the War on Poverty as President Lyndon B. Johnson defined it, which established a 20% baseline poverty rate and adopted an absolute standard. While the…
November 27, 2023
Bribing Homeowners To Build Tiny Houses Won’t Solve NYC’s Housing Problem
…affordability of its pre-zoning standard of two- and three-family homes. (Although Boston Mayor Michelle Wu is toying with bringing back the housing insanity called rent control, guaranteed to limit new…
November 27, 2023
How AI with “Theory of Mind” Could Help in the Workplace
…robust ToM emerges in AI systems, will the human-machine distinction be lost? Have we arrived at the abolition of man? Here I’ll insert the standard caveat: Like many technologies, AI has…
November 16, 2023
“Harm Reduction” Is No Solution
…Quetcy Lozada, who introduced the legislation in May, addressed the public outside of City Hall with a group of councilmembers standing behind her. “It is not fair to the children…