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September 6, 2023
Working from Home Has Increased More Modestly Than Many Believe
…Figure 2 is included in charts published by WFH Research and in its academic paper on trends in working from home.[7] It conveys the long-standing low work-from-home rate before the…
September 1, 2023
Despite Staggering Improper Payments, New Labor Department Report Calls for Reviving Pandemic Unemployment Assistance
…under PUA because claimants can self-certify” their eligibility, a risibly weak standard. Those warnings were quickly realized as criminal gangs started fraudulently claiming PUA and other unemployment benefit checks in…
August 31, 2023
Where Are The Energy Stamps, Joe?
…Department of Transportation released fuel economy standards constituting a de facto mandate to purchase new electric vehicles. With the average EV price exceeding $60,000 , government subsidies may help the well-off but do nothing for lower-income…
August 29, 2023
Skate Parks: Appreciating Another Third Place
…as parks have “a ton of diversity . . . from gender, from race, from a socioeconomic standpoint.” I have seen this nationwide with my children and many others have…
August 29, 2023
How to Reengage Parents in Their Children’s Schooling
…stand with parent engagement. To help with that, Harvard University’s Karen Mapp has created a free 41-question survey that school officials can download. She urges administrators to form a team of parents,…
August 21, 2023
Four Shocking Truths about the American Economy! (Well, Shocking to Some.)
…market income is a comprehensive measure of living standards that considers the impact of taxes and social transfers on people’s economic well-being — increased by 7 percent from 1990 to…
August 16, 2023
How to Strengthen the ‘Success Sequence’ in Utah
…success sequence to incorporate as a unit in relevant middle school and high school courses. Alternatively, the Utah State Board of Education could incorporate a family life standard into curriculum…
August 12, 2023
Why Ending Child Services Is the New Defund the Police
…standards for how black children are treated: “So when we talk about the standards of care and protection, we have to ask ourselves, well, whose standards of care and protection?…
August 9, 2023
The AI Apocalypse Can Wait
…counterintuitively–disproportionately benefit lower-skilled workers. In April, a Stanford study of customer service workers at call centers found the use of AI boosted productivity and quickly brought low-skilled workers up to levels of…
August 3, 2023
Philanthropists Discover the Value of “Sunsetting”
…says, which is why he “raised wages of front-line workers.” But Rob Reich, a professor of political science at Stanford and the author of “Just Giving: Why Philanthropy Is Failing Democracy…