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Congress should invest in open-source software
Free and open-source software underpins the digital world. Federal funding should prioritize its development and maintenance.
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Low unemployment isn’t worth much if the jobs barely pay
We should look at individuals—not national averages—as the unit of analysis, and ask: Are wages adequate for full-time workers?
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New Evidence That Lead Exposure Increases Crime (2017)
Jennifer Doleac reviews recent research that found exposure to lead poisoning led to higher crime rates.
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Zoom is now critical infrastructure – that’s a concern
John Villasenor warns about the vulnerabilities of businesses and schools using one videoconferencing platform during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Make elites compete: Why the 1% earn so much and what to do about it
The top 1 percent of Americans now earn 21 percent of total national income. Why? Jonathan Rothwell debunks three myths often used to explain away their success.
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What lies beneath: Evidence from leaked account data on offshore banking use
Matthew Collin uses account data leaked from an Isle of Man bank to investigate the characteristics of individuals and firms that store their money in tax havens.
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America has two economies, and they’re diverging fast
Red and blue America dramatically represent different segments of the economy. Here is what you need to know.
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Why are interest rates so low?
Ben Bernanke says that low interest rates are not a short-term aberration, but part of a long-term trend and explains the rationale behind the Federal Reserve's continued policies.
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Americans are more worried about their sons than their daughters
Americans are in general more worried about the prospects for boys than for girls, and for their own sons more than their own daughters, according to new data from the American Family Survey.
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Why are we so pessimistic?
Using insights from three recent books, Wolfgang Fengler provides suggestions for creating more balanced and fact-based news.
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Men not at work: Why so many men aged 25 to 54 are not working (2016)
The job market is a whole lot better than it was during the worst of the Great Recession, but around 7 million American men between the ages of 25 and 54 – mostly too old to be in school and too young to retire – are neither working nor looking for work. That amounts to […]
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Half the world is now middle class or wealthier (2018)
Just over 50 percent of the world’s population, or some 3.8 billion people, now live in households with enough discretionary spending to be considered middle class or rich.
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30% of US Workforce Need License to Perform Their Job
Nearly 30 percent of workers in the U.S. need a license to perform their job. It is important to realize that occupational licenses are not mere state-sponsored certificates to signal that workers have completed some level of training; occupational licensing laws forbid people from practicing in their occupation…