Trump Is Right To Let States Impose Work Requirements for Medicaid
Medicaid expansion has gotten out of control. Work requirements will give able-bodied Medicaid enrollees what they really need: full employment.
How Medicaid Expands Social And Economic Inequality
Medicaid’s constant, inexorable growth in state budgets has left less money for education of all types—not least higher education.
To Boost Income Mobility, Reform Our Bail System
Beyond shrinking our overly expanded incarcerated population, bail reform would boost the United States’ stagnating income mobility by reforming a system that traps the poor in poverty.
Go Directly To Jail, We’ll Collect $2,000
Capsizing people’s lives before they are proven guilty is unfair. But our bail system often makes it happen.
Democrats Broke Baltimore; Conservatives Can Help Fix It
We should identify the gatekeepers of the privileged classes whose systems have ruined cities like Baltimore and explain how to neutralize their stranglehold on American life.
Paul Krugman and Poverty Traps: The Pot Calling the Kettle Hack
It’s almost enough to think that Krugman really doesn’t care about poverty traps as much as he cares about pushing cheap political hits.