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August 2, 2023
Measuring Social Capital: Can We Tell If Some Places Are Richer in Social Capital Than Others?
The concept of social capital has been inconsistently defined and described.[1]That should not be surprising, given that social capital is intangible and not easily measured. (The same is true of…
August 1, 2023
How the Middle Class Is Faring: My Long-Read Q&A with Jeremy Horpedahl
…COTI, is not a measure of the standard of living. He would say the standard of living has improved: Medicine is better, cars are safer, etc. He would agree to…
July 31, 2023
Biden’s Under-the-Radar Budget Bomb: A New Student Loan Repayment Plan
…the Department of Education get closer to implementing this new program, we’re likely to see legal challenges to the effort. Perhaps these will enable the courts to once again stand…
July 30, 2023
26 Miles of Scaffolding Blights NYC’s Public Housing, Some Up for 10 Years
…feet, their time standing in years, not months. NYCHA, reported here for the first time, has 137,022 linear feet of sidewalk sheds — 26 miles — installed in 114 of its developments….
July 27, 2023
Perspective: Can artificial intelligence teach us to be better workers?
…to live with and resolve conflict. Rather than threatening our livelihoods, perhaps advances in AI social-emotional capacities are part of the solution to our soft-skills gap. A recent Stanford University study found use of chat…
July 25, 2023
Not Just Tulsa
…of Greenwood, unfortunately, was not an unusual fate for historic black communities in the U.S. While the Greenwood massacre stands out for the horrific means and scale of its destruction,…
July 21, 2023
Jeremy Horpedahl: Are American Families Thriving?
Does the typical American family today enjoy better living standards compared to 1985? We may have bigger TVs in our living rooms and smartphones in our pockets, but a recent…
July 21, 2023
Can Spain Defuse Its Depopulation Bomb?
…in Spain was 32 years, one of the highest in the world. What’s more, since the financial crisis in 2008 Spain’s unemployment rate has been unusually high, standing today at…
July 21, 2023
Why Freedom Conservatism Matters
…on terror in Iraq and Afghanistan, some younger conservatives warned that the Republican Party was neglecting the domestic concerns of its increasingly non-college voter base. The “Reform Conservative” group, writing…
July 19, 2023
Adams’ Smart Migrant Move Could Help the City’s Overburdened Shelters—and Migrants Themselves
…Detroit—where an incredible one of every five homes stands vacant—are in desperate need of newcomers, to repair and revive the city. Former Mayor Michael Bloomberg had it right in 2011 when…