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August 1, 2023
How the Middle Class Is Faring: My Long-Read Q&A with Jeremy Horpedahl
…that someone with their market wages they’re being paid is then going to have to turn around and pay $20,000 in health insurance costs, this is just not the case….
July 31, 2023
The Utah Model: Workforce Programs and Services Integration Tool Kit
…in the labor market. Utah’s integrated model for workforce and social assistance—the Utah Department of Workforce Services—provides a “playbook” for building state-of-the-art service delivery that maximizes use of taxpayer dollars…
July 27, 2023
Time to Do Something About the NILFs
…of the latter devoted to looking at screens: phones, computers, and television. If our blistering hot labor market, rapid wage increases, and growth in traditionally male-dominated occupations are not enough to coax men back into…
July 26, 2023
How Worker Benefits Turn into Welfare
…into the UI system, contradicting its social insurance marketing. As the massive pandemic expansions displayed as never before, that also removed an important restraint on the scale of benefit increases—that…
July 25, 2023
Why Is Economic Growth Good?
…and wants? As the New York Times once wrote about Apple co-founder Steve Jobs: “Mr. Jobs’s own research and intuition, not focus groups, were his guide. When asked what market research went into the…
July 25, 2023
Not Just Tulsa
…were doing blacks a favor by including them in these programs. Many then viewed public housing as desirable quarters. As Edward Banfield and Martin Meyerson wrote in their landmark book…
July 24, 2023
The Power of the Humble Pub
…more recently fewer of us feel like we belong to them.” Another recent survey found a marked decline in community connection and sense of kinship with their local area even…
July 21, 2023
Can Spain Defuse Its Depopulation Bomb?
…the formidable family challenges facing Spain, PP — should it win the election — will need to reform a labour market which is currently inhospitable to young adults searching for…
July 21, 2023
Why Freedom Conservatism Matters
…of centralized bureaucracies by appealing to the dignity of human life, the limited government of the Constitution, and the space that market economics provides for individual choice and competition. This…
July 19, 2023
Americans Aren’t Buying Bidenomics—Because They’ve Heard the Lies Before
…the worst housing affordability ever and sharp declines in manufacturing. If those and other trends worsen, the low regard voters already have for Bidenomics may prove a high-water mark instead….