This report to the Texas Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was released in September. Merrill Matthews is the outgoing chair of the committee (after 17 years on the committee) and oversaw the hearings and production of this report. Click here to view the report.
Category: Experts
Monday Links
- Immigrant geniuses: Between 1990 and 2019, migrants from China, India, South Korea, Japan and the Philippines accounted for nearly 40 percent of the growth in America’s software-developer ranks, a quarter of new scientists and engineers, and a fifth of additional physicians.
- Effect of students’ failure to learn: the lifetime earnings of today’s average student will be an estimated 8 percent lower than that of students in 2013.
- Why aren’t there more HSAs in exchange plans?
- Based on data from almost 2 million species, researchers found that in the last 200 years, there was no evidence for increasing extinction from climate change.
Friday Links
- A defense of the 50-yer mortgage.
- Health insurance companies have done well under Obamacare.
- Why it will be difficult for someone to work for the Mamdani administration.
- Mamdani: “We will prove that there is no problem too large for government to solve, and no concern too small for it to care about.”
- Obamacare: From 2013 to 2026. the premium for a benchmark silver plan has nearly tripled – growing from $232 $625. The average deductible has nearly doubled – growing $2,425 to $5,304.
- US men and women are marrying late and having fewer children.
What Do We Know About Socialism?
“Bolivarian socialism” … took Venezuela from being South America’s richest country to a humanitarian catastrophe. Sweden attempted a form of socialism in the 1970s and ’80s, only to reverse course after it experienced massive capital flight and a financial crisis during which interest rates hit 75 percent. France’s Socialist government imposed a 75 percent tax on earnings over one million euros in 2012; it dropped the tax two years later as the wealthy packed their bags. Britain’s National Health Service, whose advocates chronically complain is “underfunded,” is in a state of perpetual crisis even as health care, according to the BBC, gobbles up roughly one third of government spending.
Source: Bret Stephens, New York Times