- As enrollment declines (because of unwinding form Covid levels) the fall in prescriptions paid for by Medicaid or CHIP were mostly offset by an increase in commercial-paid prescriptions.
- Welfare spending has no effect on the poverty rate.
- Essay: bad government policies are the reason for almost all of our health care system failures. (Statnews)
- Social Security crisis in pictures.
- Krugman doubles down on an old and controversial claim: sweatshops in less developed countries are better than the alternative.
For once Krugman is discussing his area of expertise. Krugman won the Nobel prize for his analysis of trade patterns and the area of economic activity. Yes, I suspect poor countries that have increased their income by multiples don’t look at sweatshops in the same light as high income Westerners.