- Jeff Goldbery explains our disappointing life expectancy statistics: We lead the rest of the developed word in death by guns, suicides, drug overdoses, and in obesity.
- Unpaid caregiving lowers employment and wages – for men caregivers more than women.
- For the lay reader: why Claudia Goldin won the Nobel Prize in economics.
- How liberals live: New York city has more income inequality than any other large city in the country. (NYT)
Author: John C. Goodman
Monday Links
- Penn Wharton warning: the US is headed toward default.
- Aaron Carroll: misinformation about health care has a very long history.
- Will shaming hospitals make them lower their charges?
- How progressives thought about race – 100 years ago.
- The worst police abuses do not involve accidental shootings.
- More on why marriage matters.
Saturday Links
- Biden supports striking health care workers over patients. Actually, the president appears to believe every worker should get more pay – meaning, I suppose, we should all pay more for everything we buy.
- Lancet study on warming: In 2021, more than 2.5 billion hours of labor in the U.S. agriculture, construction, manufacturing and service sectors were lost to heat exposure.
- Sen. Tim Scott was right: Thomas Sowell points out that in 1960—almost 100 years after slavery—only 22% of African-American children grew up in homes with one parent. Thirty years later, after the expansion of the welfare state under the Great Society, that percentage had tripled. (WSJ)
- Should medical debt be banned from credit reports? (NYT)
- In the 1950s and 1960s, the Army used blowers on top of buildings and in the backs of station wagons to spray a potential carcinogen into the air surrounding a St. Louis housing project where most residents were Black. More here
Friday Links
- “mRNA vaccines reached production despite the system, rather than because of it.”
- Fake health news on TikTok.
- To speed up drug approvals, recognize reliable approvals in other countries.
- Timothy Taylor: Update on the opioid epidemic.
- The National Portrait Gallery, which contains memorable drawings of great Americans throughout our nation’s history, is displaying a picture of Fauci????