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May 23, 2023
Will Biden Cross a Line on Poverty?
…gap would grow over time, and by 2033 the poverty line would be more than $13,000 higher than it would be using the current approach. Raising the poverty line would…
May 23, 2023
An Unexpected Role for AI in the Workplace
…hour, and average call time for those using AI fell by 5 minutes from a company baseline of 40. Customer support workers handled more calls and resolved more problems with…
May 23, 2023
Public Housing Should Have Work Rules, Too
…been finding ways around it.) Unlike Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, housing benefits come with no time limit: about 32,000 New York City public-housing residents have lived in the projects…
May 23, 2023
Biden Courts Another Mortgage Crisis
…have hollowed out the risk-based pricing structure erected after the 2008 financial crisis. Progressives claim these rules need to be altered so those who have historically had a harder time…
May 17, 2023
The Wrong Immigration at the Wrong Time
…been capped at 85,000 for the last twenty years with annual applications now totaling eight times that figure. These are the workers where labor shortages are the most striking and they…
May 12, 2023
Follow the Money as Hochul Floats Tobacco Ban While Pushing Legal Marijuana
…Albany Times-Union, of the $16 billion in tobacco settlement funds New York State received between 1999 and 2021, just $920 million went for “tobacco control,” including those legitimately frightening television…
May 10, 2023
AI Tutoring Has a Lot to Offer. But so Does Human Mentoring.
…lots of different measures, that Americans were joining fewer groups and spending more time in solo activities than they used to. Today, kids are enmeshed in fewer social networks, as they’re…
May 6, 2023
SNAP Needs a Healthy Overhaul
…obese. Moreover, half of this group described their health as fair or poor—more than four times the rate reported by higher-income Americans in the same age group. Mental health challenges…
May 5, 2023
Wrong Diagnosis, Wrong Prescription
…or even full-time jobs, and aren’t homeless. Among poor adults aged 18 to 64, less than 10 percent worked full-time, year-round in 2021. Less than 2 percent of poor people are homeless at any…
May 1, 2023
Here’s How Hochul Can Salvage Her Goal of More Affordable Housing in NY
…What’s more, the switch to all-electric at the same time she’s pushing for a switch to unreliable power sources — think wind and solar — means not only higher power…