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July 26, 2023
How Worker Benefits Turn into Welfare
…the cost of those increases would be matched by unpopular payroll tax hikes on jobs. Once bottomless general revenues were tapped, the sky became the limit on benefit hikes. For…
July 25, 2023
Not Just Tulsa
…because it was black. Paul Jones, a columnist for the city’s black newspaper, The Pittsburgh Courier, got to the heart of the matter in a way that could be applied to…
July 21, 2023
Why Freedom Conservatism Matters
…toward planning, toward tribal identity, toward arbitrary power, toward personalist rule. That is why Freedom Conservatism matters. The statement isn’t perfect. Hugh Hewitt observes that it ought to mention property rights. Andrew…
July 19, 2023
Americans Aren’t Buying Bidenomics—Because They’ve Heard the Lies Before
…2009 stimulus legislation would create millions of new jobs—which didn’t materialize. Indeed, that “recovery plan” resulted in 6.7 million fewer jobs than the Obama-Biden administration forecast in a 2009 report Biden’s new…
July 18, 2023
Yet More Absurdities in Biden’s Housing Policy
…make matters worse, as long as funds remain, a borrower may claim this payment supplement every five years, which means that it could be re-upped just when the prior supplement…
July 17, 2023
The Latest Extraordinary Findings on Pandemic Improper Payments
…example, agencies can enter into Computer Matching Agreements, which permit federal agencies to conduct data matches with one another to establish or verify personal information. [Page 12] 8. Even verifying Social…
July 17, 2023
Biden Tries to Revive His Eviction Moratorium Through the Back Door
…of landlord–tenant relations — like housing and building-code enforcement — has historically been a matter for localities, the units of government by far the closest to housing markets. Cities and…
July 16, 2023
When Office Perks Become Perils
…really a device to tether people to the office. Stolzoff warns that it is not only these material benefits that get employees to center more of their lives on work….
July 15, 2023
Yonkers’ Only Charter School Illustrates Just How Broken the System Is
…69% of its sixth graders, for example, scored proficient in math, compared to 38% for New York State. In English Language Arts, 91% of CSEE students were proficient, compared to…
July 13, 2023
This School Year, Recovery from COVID Learning Loss Went the Wrong Direction
…slowly in reading and math during the 2022–23 school year than in pre-pandemic years. In other words, during the past school year, most students fell further behind. The NWEA report…