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June 7, 2023
Don’t Give Away the Farm Bill
…the Thrifty Food plan to demonstrate the cost of a healthy diet, helping families find nutritious food on a budget. It serves as the benchmark for food stamps, also called…
June 7, 2023
The Price We’ll Pay for Our AI Future: More Loneliness
…CarynAI isn’t the first attempt at providing people with companionship through an AI chatbot. Replika, another AI-chatbot friend marketed to people who are “lonely, depressed, or have few social connections”…
June 7, 2023
Don’t Give Away the Farm Bill
…the Thrifty Food plan to demonstrate the cost of a healthy diet, helping families find nutritious food on a budget. It serves as the benchmark for food stamps, also called…
June 7, 2023
The Price We’ll Pay For Our AI Future: More Loneliness
…CarynAI isn’t the first attempt at providing people with companionship through an AI chatbot. Replika, another AI-chatbot friend marketed to people who are “lonely, depressed, or have few social connections”…
May 31, 2023
Sending the Wrong Signals
…that would provide city funds to pay rent on apartments of their own. Removal of this requirement shows a fundamental naivete: in a housing market constrained by regulations on rent…
May 23, 2023
Public Housing Should Have Work Rules, Too
…vouchers to enter the labor market has positive effects, including upward mobility. “Public and other assisted housing” is not a minor program. Housing vouchers are the largest item in the…
May 23, 2023
Biden Courts Another Mortgage Crisis
…breaking into the housing market can get a shot. This approach has backfired. The last great credit expansion, done with the goal of expanding homeownership in the runup to the…
May 17, 2023
The Wrong Immigration at the Wrong Time
…workers. Some economists have linked immigration to substantial declines in the male labor market participation rate – men either working or actively seeking work. The rate among men 18-to-64 years…
May 12, 2023
Follow the Money as Hochul Floats Tobacco Ban While Pushing Legal Marijuana
…market we now see with cannabis when it comes to cigarettes. Recall that Eric Garner tussled with cops on Staten Island who sought to arrest him for selling individual “loosie”…
May 5, 2023
Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription
…private market for housing. He scorns the earned income tax credit, which, he suggests—contrary to a large body of evidence—has not reduced poverty since its rollout and expansion. The lack…