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January 2018

January 30, 2018
So Megan McArdle reports today that A partnership of Amazon.com Inc., Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and...
January 30, 2018
Here are two admittedly-broad characterizations. Immigration-skeptics worry that unskilled illegal (or even legal) immigrants will...
January 29, 2018
"It's expensive to be poor" refers to the various ways in which the poor pay...
January 28, 2018
Or, "From the library: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond."...
January 26, 2018
Most Americans believe the following two things: We should allow that portion of the illegal...
January 24, 2018
I read and wrote about J.B. Pritzker yesterday, and, by coincidence, there was a debate...
January 23, 2018
The line we generally hear about illegal immigrants is this:  they lived in grinding poverty...
January 23, 2018
A. Whatever Tom Cotton and Dick Durbin can come to an agreement on. Look, I...
January 23, 2018
That is, get even more Illinoisey, with greater levels of dysfunction? After all, the governor's...
January 22, 2018
Here's a report from the Daily Mail:  "Oxford University extends time for maths and computer...
January 19, 2018
A. Nothing. Yes, maybe in the meantime, we'll get a full-on reform of the system. ...
January 19, 2018
"Robots will take away all of the unskilled jobs.  In order to support a family,...
January 18, 2018
Every so often I feel like I need to type this up:  what I'd like...
January 18, 2018
I'll start by saying that I've always considered SROs, single-room occupancy hotels, that is, to...
January 17, 2018
By which I mean this: Three Republican and three Democratic Senators have been working on...
January 15, 2018
So the other day I wrote about the "brain drain" and vaguer "ambition drain" issue...
January 13, 2018
and, if so, what did you learn? I got the results back from my own...
January 12, 2018
The conventional wisdom on immigration from a place like El Salvador is clear:  the country...
January 11, 2018
In the news:  "Trump derides protections for immigrants from ‘shithole’ countries," at the Washington Post....
January 10, 2018
In the paper today, "Revised Obama center design seeks better fit with park and answer...
January 09, 2018
So the other day I griped about aging-in-place, that is, staying in the Sacred Family...
January 07, 2018
If there's one thing that's ubiquitous in Germany but scarcely available here, it's pretzels. Sure,...
January 07, 2018
I wrote on twitter yesterday, The funny thing is, I have no strong opinion on...
January 04, 2018
Answer:  when it's a certain type of policymakers talking about women's earnings, employment, and retirement....
January 02, 2018
Richard Reeves' Dream Hoarders, which I "book-reported" over the summer, writes about various ways in...
January 02, 2018
When I was a middle- and high-schooler, I read a lot of James Michener novels...
January 01, 2018
Imagine if your local school district promised its teachers generous raises -- well in excess...

December 2017

December 30, 2017
Or, when public policy and family issues intersect. A recent article in the Tribune, "'You...
December 29, 2017
So I'd been thinking, off and on, about the arguments that researcher Andrew Biggs has...
December 26, 2017
In the news today, "Charities worry tax law will cut giving."  As it happens, this...
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