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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 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 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 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 14, 2023
Do We Need a Reboot? Challenging Prevailing Narratives on AI
…a new era of prosperity or hamper the U.S. in leading the way toward a better and more prosperous AI future. We recently hosted an AEI event with two Stanford University professors,…
July 6, 2023
The End of Affirmative Action Calls for a Renewed Conservatism of Opportunity
…not of their own making. Because children from groups underrepresented among the elite are decidedly overrepresented among the disadvantaged, an effective policy agenda around upward mobility would stand to benefit…
June 28, 2023
Is ‘Bidenomics’ Even a Thing, Really?
…standards—or is something else? To govern is to choose. To govern wisely is to acknowledge the existence of trade-offs and opportunity costs. For example: Regulations that preserve coastal views for luxury homeowners…
June 8, 2023
Flawed Approach: The Working Families Tax Cut Act as a Response to Inflation
…increase the standard deduction by $2,000 for single filers and $4,000 for married filers in 2024 and 2025. However, this increase would phase out for taxpayers with incomes over $200,000…
June 1, 2023
Will Chat Tech Help the Neuro-Divergent Find Their Place in Society?
…be the next step in making the problem worse? Some encouraging recent developments suggest AI may be able to heal, rather than exacerbate, existing social fractures. First was a Stanford…