Collecting My Thoughts

As government transfer payments to low-income households exploded in the last 50 years, their labor-force participation collapsed and the pe...

"Sen. Cory Booker (D.-N.J.) is proposing a plan—the American Opportunity Accounts Act—that he calculates will provide $46,215 to every ...

One of the reasons Columbia University can claim that poverty among young children was at 45% during the Obama years is that pesky threshol...

At the county level we've lost a lot of ground under Obama. "Based on poverty rate estimates for all 3,141 counties for all ages, ...

Facebook sent me a memo about what I wrote on November 1, 2014. "This is why the Democrats have to talk about a gap rather than quali...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xq_iCMgP2Q It will take about an hour to watch this lecture by Annette Lareau as she follows up her ori...

Lumped together they loosely comprise “welfare” in the jargon of the people, but that means jobs for government workers. There are 79 means ...

What if Obama stops smoking? And millions of others? Health care costs will increase. Yes, smokers die younger and will not require all th...

If you were poor or low income sitting on the edge of the bottom quintile, hoping to move up a notch, which would you prefer: a job in an O...