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June 22, 2023
In An Age Of Low Social Trust, Stopping By Your Neighbor’s House Is Weird And Creepy
It was presaged during the pandemic: “Masks have also become so much more than mere barrier between germs and lungs,” the New York Times reported in April 2021. “They can keep that too-chatty neighbor…
June 22, 2023
Thanks to the Baby Bust, America Is Getting Older
…Times. “Fewer kids are being born.” This is true. Almost every year since 2007, fewer and fewer children have been born in the United States, down from 4.3 million in…
June 22, 2023
The Cost of Thriving Has Fallen: Correcting and Rejecting the American Compass Cost-of-Thriving Index
…was in 1985. When we include younger full-time workers excluded by Cass and full-time female workers, COTI falls by nearly one week before accounting for taxes and by 7.5 weeks…
June 21, 2023
The Bad Math Behind Economic Doomerism
…full-time male workers. We first improve on Cass’ cost estimates by correcting conceptual and measurement errors and using better source data. For instance, while Cass uses the average sticker price…
June 20, 2023
College isn’t just about career or credentials — it’s also about friends, formation, and, if you’re lucky, marriage
A few weeks ago, my college friends and I all got together for the weekend. We are seven guys in our mid-40s who have been friends for about 25 years. We drank beer…
June 20, 2023
Down Through the Ages
…happiness between higher-income and lower-income white Americans in the 1970s, but by the 2010s, “five times as many whites in the lowest fifth for income were unhappy compared to those…
June 16, 2023
The Missing Context Behind “Cuts” in Fast-Growing Welfare Programs
…its baseline projections for the number of current and expected future benefit recipients—show that both food stamp and Medicaid caseloads have recently grown many times faster than those would-be reductions. Before the…
June 15, 2023
Testimony on Anti-Poverty and Family Support Provisions in the Tax Code
…and encourage work at the same time. I thought it was a good use of evidence when President Clinton cited that same research. President Clinton also signed bipartisan legislation to…
June 15, 2023
Our Children Need to Be Involved in Religious Institutions
Last weekend, I celebrated the wedding of a long-time friend in Baltimore. Nearly a half dozen couples who were instrumental in my life were in attendance but I didn’t appreciate…
June 15, 2023
Instead of ‘Late Capitalism,’ Maybe the US Economy Is Still in ‘Early Capitalism’
…that term. The phrase dates back to the early 20th century — yup, we’ve apparently been in LC for a long time — when Werner Sombart, a German economist, used…