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December 14, 2023
…Department and David Splinter of the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation finds that the after-tax income share of the top 1% has barely changed since 1962. This stands in stark contrast to…
December 5, 2023
…| Survey Center on American Life | November 9, 2023 Growing Up in Intact Families Matters More Than Ever W. Bradford Wilcox and David Bass | National Review | October 2, 2023…
December 4, 2023
In The Next American Economy (2022), Samuel Gregg provides a refreshing defense of free markets, emphasizing the need to frame the case for economic liberty within a broader narrative about America’s values and identity. We need this book to…
November 17, 2023
…economist David Autor and his colleagues, America lost well over 2 million jobs as a direct result of this trade agreement. This is but one example of how the search for cheap…
November 14, 2023
…was pervasive, and the economy had stagnated. From John Lindsay to David Dinkins, mayor after mayor had tried to tackle these problems. They had all failed. After three decades of…
November 13, 2023
…While technological unemployment may have failed to materialize over previous decades, the structure and nature of employment were utterly transformed. The MIT economist David Autor and coauthors found that the majority of…
October 27, 2023
…of disappointment — “Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream,” a new book by my Times colleague and former podcast sparring partner David Leonhardt. It’s a…
October 24, 2023
…life was changed by them. David Ramey: Gainsboro Road and Beyond, shared between the Taubman Museum of Art and the Harrison Museum of African American Culture, both in Roanoke, exhibits…
October 23, 2023
A few years ago, David Brooks wrote a column in which he took a friend without a high school degree to a sandwich shop. “Suddenly,” he recounted, “I saw her…
October 20, 2023
…Opportunity; and David Troutman, Deputy Commission of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for a discussion on how value can be measured theoretically. We concluded that fuller access to data…