Unemployment
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Weaving Stable Neighborhoods
“It’s simply unconscionable that so many of us continue to invest our charitable time and treasure into projects that undermine social cohesion rather than building it.” ~Rachel Ferguson
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Big-Government Welfare Crowds Out Beneficial Social Behavior
“Means tested welfare necessarily crowds out the poor from productive employment by substituting government grants for family earning and community support.” ~Donald J. Devine
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Assessing Bidenomics: The Fatal Conceit of National Commercial Policy
“Roughly 50 cents out of every dollar of economic activity in the US is controlled by a government, rather than an entrepreneur, consumer, or investor. That is bad news for efficiency and growth. It’s also bad news for liberty.” ~Nikolai G. Wenzel
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Did Government Red Ink Make the US More Dynamic than Europe?
“The new ‘reshuffling’ thesis of American recovery doesn’t make much sense on the evidence. It serves a convenient political purpose, helping to justify massive federal stimulus.” ~Jason Sorens
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Correlation Is Not Enough
“The ‘look here, too’ method provides a valuable check on statistical interpretations adopted because they advance someone’s agenda, rather than accuracy.” ~Gary Galles
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Can Prosperity Feed Perceptions of Poverty?
“The only sense in which the American middle-class is disappearing economically is that an ever-increasing percentage of American households earn annual incomes that are in the upper brackets.” ~Donald J. Boudreaux
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Industrial Policy Indignities
“Some low-value-added manufacturing, once economically sensible to do stateside, should now take place elsewhere. The alternative is tying up American workers in less-than-productive jobs.” ~David B. McGarry
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Chris Rock Portrays the Tragicomedy of the Minimum Wage
“Much has improved in race relations since Martin Luther King. But the same cannot be said of the laws governing labor markets.” ~Scott Drylie
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22 States Raised the Minimum Wage: What Does This Mean for Low-Skilled Workers?
“Governments inadvertently eliminate many of these essential entry-level jobs by advocating for higher minimum wages. This lost first rung has profound consequences, especially for vulnerable groups.” ~Vance Ginn
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ChatGPT is a Calculator; Deal with It
“For many routine tasks—and, honestly, most writing is routine, not creative—it is faster and actually better to have the AI create the text, at least for the first draft.” ~Michael Munger
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Weaving Stable Neighborhoods
“It’s simply unconscionable that so many of us continue to invest our charitable time and treasure into projects that undermine social cohesion rather than building it.” ~Rachel Ferguson
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Big-Government Welfare Crowds Out Beneficial Social Behavior
“Means tested welfare necessarily crowds out the poor from productive employment by substituting government grants for family earning and community support.” ~Donald J. Devine
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Assessing Bidenomics: The Fatal Conceit of National Commercial Policy
“Roughly 50 cents out of every dollar of economic activity in the US is controlled by a government, rather than an entrepreneur, consumer, or investor. That is bad news for efficiency and growth. It’s also bad news for liberty.” ~Nikolai G. Wenzel
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Did Government Red Ink Make the US More Dynamic than Europe?
“The new ‘reshuffling’ thesis of American recovery doesn’t make much sense on the evidence. It serves a convenient political purpose, helping to justify massive federal stimulus.” ~Jason Sorens
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Correlation Is Not Enough
“The ‘look here, too’ method provides a valuable check on statistical interpretations adopted because they advance someone’s agenda, rather than accuracy.” ~Gary Galles
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Can Prosperity Feed Perceptions of Poverty?
“The only sense in which the American middle-class is disappearing economically is that an ever-increasing percentage of American households earn annual incomes that are in the upper brackets.” ~Donald J. Boudreaux
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Industrial Policy Indignities
“Some low-value-added manufacturing, once economically sensible to do stateside, should now take place elsewhere. The alternative is tying up American workers in less-than-productive jobs.” ~David B. McGarry
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Chris Rock Portrays the Tragicomedy of the Minimum Wage
“Much has improved in race relations since Martin Luther King. But the same cannot be said of the laws governing labor markets.” ~Scott Drylie
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22 States Raised the Minimum Wage: What Does This Mean for Low-Skilled Workers?
“Governments inadvertently eliminate many of these essential entry-level jobs by advocating for higher minimum wages. This lost first rung has profound consequences, especially for vulnerable groups.” ~Vance Ginn
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ChatGPT is a Calculator; Deal with It
“For many routine tasks—and, honestly, most writing is routine, not creative—it is faster and actually better to have the AI create the text, at least for the first draft.” ~Michael Munger