Friday Links

USA at 250: 4% of global population; 25% of global output; nearly half of all wealth.

How India climbed out of poverty.

Winners and losers in the US welfare state: “American heads of households younger than 35 now have a median net worth of about $39,000 and an average net worth of more than $183,000. Those over 75 have a median net worth of roughly $335,000 and an average net worth exceeding $1.6 million.”

“From 2018 to 2023, the number of direct primary care and concierge practice sites grew by 83.1 percent and the number of clinicians participating in them by 78.4 percent.”

Are Blacks and women favored over white men in elite occupations? Yes, but only if they’re politically progressive.

More than two dozen states have passed laws banning or limiting gender-related treatments for minors in the last several years. On the other hand, A coalition of 19 states have sued to block the Trump administration’s plan to strip federal funding of such treatments across the whole country.