- Study results: giving people money doesn’t make them less poor.
- The real Mark Twain.
- The official poverty rate doesn’t count IRA and 401(k) withdrawals as “income.”
- Why Republicans are having a problem cutting Medicaid spending. (NYT)
- Meta study finds that health insurance improves health. But the most rigorous of the reviewed studies came to the opposite conclusion.
- Cato reforms Medicaid (But nothing about making the program better for enrollees)
- David Friedman explains tariffs. (Best explanation I have seen.)
- Should SNAP (food stamps) regulate what people eat?
Category: Monday Links
Monday Links – 28 April 2025
- How Obamacare changed the health insurance marketplace.
- Worker pay and worker productivity are almost perfectly correlated.
- Florida GOP investigates a $10 million Medicaid contractor settlement payment that went to Casey DeSantis’s foundation.
- Yale has one administrator for every undergraduate student.
Monday Links
- “While life expectancies around the world have generally been rising, Russia’s life expectancies have not risen for about a half-century.”
- Do higher fertility rates produce higher economic growth?
- AAF: “We know tariffs on pharmaceuticals are bad.”
- Trump think tank: tariffs can lower drug prices.
- Covid study: vaccinated 6x more likely to be hospitalized than unvaxxed.
- ChatGPT’s o3 scores 136 on the Norway Mensa IQ test.