- New research by Gerald Auten of the US Treasury Department and David Splinter of the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation finds that the after-tax income share of the top 1% has barely changed since 1962. More.
- Is it true that 1 in 8 American households are so poor that someone must skip a meal each month to get by? No, it is not—the real number is more like 1 in 50. More.
- Biden: The expanded child tax credit “cut child poverty in half in 2021.” Proper modeling: expanded CTC alone would have reduced the child poverty rate to 8.3 percent in 2021. More.
- The left-leaning Center for Budget Policies says we need housing subsidies because of market failure in the housing market. In fact, public housing subsidies are anti-marriage: Per HUD data, only 3% of subsidized housing serves “two adults with children.” More.
Category: Direct Primary Care
The Atlantic: Destigmatizing Hard Drug Use is a Huge Mistake
In high-income cities recently there were billboards filled with young, attractive, smiling people. The caption read “Drink with friends,” explaining if you drink & drive, ask a friend to go with you to help steer, watch for oncoming traffic and tell you when you’re swerving out of your lane. If that sounds utterly ridiculous that’s because it is. Except, drinking wasn’t the topic of the billboards, fentanyl use was.
Friday Links
- Anthrobots are biological robots, made from human cells, that “can be coached to do something they would never have done on their own.”
- A critical analysis of a proposal to abolish the FDA, by Scott Alexander.
- Blue cities are more segregated than the rest of America.
- A brief history of torture in judicial proceedings, including the modern era.
- Despite its being in place for more than half a century and directing more than a billion dollars annually, there is limited evidence of the Health Professional Shortage Areas (HPSAs) program’s effectiveness at reducing geographic disparities in access to care or health outcomes.
Tuesday Links
- 65 bullet points on leftwing antisemitism. There is a reason why socialism and antisemitism were closely aligned in the 20th century: both are variations of collectivism.
- Thinking about dying.
- What does hospital price transparency have to do with community health centers? The former is an excuse for funding the latter.
- Illness can be financially devastating – in the US, but also in Canada and Britain. The reason: It’s not because of medical bills. It’s because of a lack of income from work.