How Bad is Crime in Washington D.C.?
…Chicago, Detroit, New York, Richmond, and Washington D.C. The lower half of the first graph looks at the crime rate per thousand. Washington D.C. is the lighter blue. Total crime…
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Opportunities for Labor has been Changing
…workers,” said Arin Dube, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. “This is disappointing news for those who were hoping the reversal in wage inequality would be a more permanent…
Lobbying for the Nobel Peace Prize went No Where for Trump
…loyalists are standing with the autocrat Putin rather than democracy is clearer every day. Federal agents in Chicago have been targeting journalists, and yesterday, U.S. District Judge Sara L. Ellis…
Conversation on Population Growth
…Chicago Council on Global Affairs has a piece on this also. As the Chicago Council on Global Affairs polling notes, American attitudes toward immigration differ notably among the various racial…
What economics would you teach kids?
…when I clicked on the link because the federal budget seems like a really strange place to start economics education. It seems important to start economics education with the economics…
Why Is Brazil Ahead of the US…fuel
…natural gas, other than the odd city bus or garbage truck in random municipalities? The answer is a simple but unpleasant one. See, we in the US would label the…
Housing Update
…considered almost risk-free because if the borrowers default, Fannie or Freddie will pay off the loans (assuming Fannie and Freddie remain solvent). Non-conforming loans go into pools known as private-label…
Oh, dear. Another loopy challenge to yet another ACA provision, this one concerning the Independent Payment Advisory Board.*
…ridiculous. But it does have the advantage of carrying with it the Madisonian Freedom/Liberty tag, a label that the Koch right confers upon anything it wishes, because that surely will…
The mindless canard stating as unexplained fact that it would be worse to expand the federal government by a third in order to accommodate single-payer healthcare insurance than it is to have private, for-profit health insurance companies playing this role instead
…political debates, is a disagreement about how far to turn the knobs when adjusting policy; it does not seem to call for a separate ideological label. That said, Mr. Konczal…
How do Americans get rich? (and stay rich?)
…pictures to get a feel for that disparity, based on the Integrated Macroeconomics Accounts (IMAs). They just show contributions to household wealth — additions to the asset side of household…