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November 13, 2023
How The IRS Discourages Boomer Charity
…law, be taxed as income. That’s because they’ve not been taxed previously; putting aside funds in “tax-advantaged accounts” reduces income at the time they’re deposited. They are, instead, taxed upon…
November 11, 2023
Why is NYC Telling Teachers to Not Keep Kids Safe?
…abused or neglected and three times as likely to be a victim of a maltreatment-related fatality. A New York Times analysis of child homicides in New York City from 2016 to 2022…
November 9, 2023
What Dems — And NYC — Can Learn From The GOP’s Bronx City Council Win
…even if their incomes go up. Nor is there any time limit on public housing — where some 20% of tenants have lived for 40 years or more. Similarly, rent-stabilized…
November 8, 2023
Perspective: The 4-Year Dividing Line
…same. At the same time, highly educated workers are nearly three times more likely to say making a meaningful contribution to society is one of the most important concerns when…
October 31, 2023
It Takes Two
…at any time since 1987. Finally, the teen birth rate (and nonmarital teen birth rate) also began steady declines at around the same time. As it happens, the early 1990s was a period…
October 27, 2023
What Happened to the American Dream?
…of disappointment — “Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream,” a new book by my Times colleague and former podcast sparring partner David Leonhardt. It’s a…
October 25, 2023
The Freedom to Choose
…into the realm of sociology. At the same time, however, it falls into, a victimology that is often more asserted than argued. Let’s start with where I think Frohnen is right. American associational life has been…
October 25, 2023
Dispelling Myths About The Child Tax Credit
…Plan. That partisan legislation sharply increased the value of the CTC, provided it in monthly installments in the second half of 2021, and paid it for the first time to parents…
October 24, 2023
Roanoke Atones for Urban Renewal—Artistically
…times to apply for a job delivering medicine on my bicycle. I was about ten or eleven and he always told me I wasn’t old enough. I was eager to…
October 23, 2023
Teach Your Children Well
…things that they may not if they just spend time around kids their own age. But Moskowitz also has a lot of suggestions for family time. She is a big…