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Why Do People Feel Like They Are Falling Behind?
A different way of understanding arguments about single-income mid-century families.
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Do Millionaire Surtaxes Lead to Millionaire Exodus?
Assessing the Massachusetts millionaire’s tax three years on.
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How Many People Live Paycheck to Paycheck?
A thrillingly ambiguous debate.
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Tim Wu Does Not Understand the Welfare State
No redistribution of factor payments will ever obviate the need for the welfare state.
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One More Time on the Economy
Three different arguments happening simultaneously is leading to a conceptual mess.
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Wealth Distribution in 2022
Wealth inequality is as it has always been. But it doesn't have to be.
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The SNAP Work Requirements
Just randomly inflicting pain on people.
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The Debt Limit Situation
Biden has a variety of ways to ignore the debt limit. He has no way to legally follow it.
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Minnesota Parental Leave Plan Excludes Large Minority of Potential Mothers
The Democrats still have yet to pass a single universal parental leave program in the US.
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Over 20 Percent of People Lacked Health Insurance Between 2017 and 2020
Point-in-time measures obscure just how common health uninsurance is.
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Washington State's Parental Leave Program Excludes a Huge Amount of New Parents
Washington's current parental leave program is a mess. But it can be easily fixed.
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The New York Working Families Tax Credit Proposal Is a Means-Testing Disaster
A case study in how dumb the obsession with phaseouts is.
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5 Insights from Norway's 2023 Tax Proposal
Norway leads the way in vehicle, resource, and wealth taxation.
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The Rapidly Growing Starbucks Union in Numbers
Based on current filings alone, the Starbucks Union is already on track to have 6,400 workers at 230 stores.
