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November 9, 2023
…help a favored few while distorting the overall housing market. Income-restricted “affordable” units require households to qualify based on their income — but they can stay as long as they want…
October 31, 2023
…are in a stable, loving relationship. They also matter because the likelihood that a child lives with married parents has fallen markedly. In 1980, 77 percent of children in the…
October 27, 2023
…culture. The kinds of men who embrace marriage as an institution are more likely to be married today. Men and fatherhood. Men who connect marriage to children are also markedly more likely to…
October 25, 2023
…30 years: despair and polarization. Beginning in the late 1980s, I began to notice how conservatives, as they lost cultural market share, increasingly despaired of the country (“Come home, America,” as a National…
October 25, 2023
…their income and thus reduced child poverty. But the massive deficit spending in the ARP and other trillion-dollar bills also contributed to higher inflation , which disproportionately hurts lower-income families . Economist Mark Zandi found the…
October 12, 2023
…focusing them on a coherent constituency that can be approached from different angles. Conservatives inclined to arguments for market competition could focus, as they long have, on educational choice; opportunities…
October 12, 2023
…least through its role as a financial center, in the development of the markets of the South and West. But, more recently, the Empire State is not even nominally a…
October 10, 2023
…marks and a broken jaw. If there were any justice in this city, Pitchal would be run out of town. The ideology of “family preservation” now plagues city Family Court. …
October 6, 2023
…a license or will we limit which vendors parents can choose? These market slowdowns are a huge issue. If we’re going to implement ESAs correctly, we need to make sure…
October 4, 2023
…key element of a healthy housing market, however, and one long overlooked in Gotham. New York needs not just more housing if it is to attract and retain newcomers; it…