Category: Posts
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Has the Position of College Graduates Worsened?
This calls for some relative analysis.
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What Does the Census Data Say About "The Lost Generation"
Savage appears wrong, but the reality is potentially bleaker.
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Rep. Tlaib's Economic Dignity for All Agenda Would Bring Economic Security for Millions
The agenda would lower poverty by 42% and child poverty by two-thirds.
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Crunching the Numbers on Predistribution
Merely including the elderly flips the relative importance of redistribution.
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Do Predistribution People Know How to Read?
How many times will they fall for the same exact measurement tricks?
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Does Europe Use Market Incomes to Achieve Equality?
No.
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Red Greenland
The small island nation has one of the largest and most successful portfolios of state-owned companies in the world. What?
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The Simple Math of Poverty
Poverty is just not as exciting as people want it to be.
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Bad Arguments Against Free Buses
The transit world has talked itself into a nonsense understanding of revenue tradeoffs.
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Abundance Has a Theory of Power
I don't know why this is being so obfuscated.
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Is There Really an Epidemic of Workless Medicaid Recipients?
A deep dive into the Survey of Income and Program Participation.
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Success Sequence Followers Do Not Follow the Success Sequence
More on this fake thing.
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The Employment of Young Men
The flimsiest of possible excuses for cutting Medicaid.
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Federal Workers Are Spread Out Across the Country
Contrary to popular belief, they don't all work in DC.
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What Happens to People Who Have Three Months of Emergency Savings?
Following them for a year reveals lots of economic insecurity.
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The Abundance Agenda
A review.
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Trump’s Freeze on Clean Energy Funding Harms States and Nonprofits Most
Trump can stop Direct Pay grants but not tax credits.
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Health Care Administration Wastes Half a Trillion Dollars Every Year
Health insurers are actually very bad.
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Biden Should Commute All Current Death Sentences to Life in Prison
If Biden does not act, Trump will kill.
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Eliminating Marriage Penalties Through Universalism
The social democratic welfare state wins again.