Economic history (it took years, even decades, for past general-purpose technologies to deliver big productivity gains) and economic theory (expect productivity stagnation or even a dip as firms ...
The American Dream is a core promise of our nation. Politicians regularly extol the idea that each generation of Americans deserves to be better-off than their parents. Immigrants flocking to the ...
Mention the low and falling birthrate, and you’re bound to get a hundred bad responses.
Mention the low and falling birthrate, and you’re bound to get a hundred bad responses. The two most common explanations are that young people are too selfish and lazy, or that having children is too ...
Thirty years ago this summer, the sociologist William Julius Wilson published When Work Disappears, in which he attributed high unemployment in urban, largely Black neighborhoods to structural changes ...
Medicaid is getting a justified makeover on Jan. 1, when most states will begin implementing a work requirement as a condition of receiving benefits. The roughly trillion-dollar safety-net program had ...
Mention the low and falling birthrate, and you’re bound to get a hundred bad responses.