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November 27, 2023
Bribing Homeowners To Build Tiny Houses Won’t Solve NYC’s Housing Problem
…opposite of the type of zoning reform New York City needs. Rather than further distorting the housing market, already saddled with a million rent-regulated units and hundreds of thousands of…
November 27, 2023
For kids, marriage still matters
…There’s no question that Rodgers is off the mark here in discounting the link between marriage and the welfare of children. All of this isn’t to denigrate the sacrifices and…
November 21, 2023
Defining Poverty Up
…poverty in America. First, the SPM raises the national poverty guideline (often called the poverty line, which marks the income level where poverty ends) well above the level used by…
November 17, 2023
Male Malaise Is Not Just About ‘the Culture’
…The research of the Princeton economist Mark Aguiar and his team suggests that screentime can account for nearly half of the drop in working hours for men in their twenties…
November 13, 2023
The Jobless AI Future Is Still a Long Way Off
…them in the labor market, driving up their wages and incomes. Higher incomes will increase overall demand for goods and services in the economy, which in turn will increase the…
November 13, 2023
How The IRS Discourages Boomer Charity
…greater rate, falling 6.4%, or 13.4% inflation-adjusted. There are a wide range of explanations for the drop, including a rocky stock market and the ongoing effects of the Tax Cuts…
November 9, 2023
What Dems — And NYC — Can Learn From The GOP’s Bronx City Council Win
…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…
November 3, 2023
The Biden AI Executive Order: Dark Brandon or Uncle Joe?
…including effects on job skills and evaluation of applicants and workers.” Here, Uncle Joe is out over his skis. Our labor market information (LMI) system, which would form the basis…
October 31, 2023
It Takes Two
…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
What liberals don’t understand about men and marriage
…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…