Wednesday Links

Illegal crossings were cut to almost zero in the 1950s and early 1960s when we had the Bracero Program that allowed Mexicans and Central Americans to work seasonally in agricultural jobs.

The government’s official guidelines on a heathy diet: The 1980 guidelines were a mere 18 pages. By 2000, the document had more than doubled, to 39 pages. By 2010, it reached 95 pages. Yet the government’s overarching advice on how to eat healthier hasn’t changed in the past 35 years.

How OBBBA will tax colleges and universities and a slew of tax avoidance measures that will likely ensue.

Per unit of energy produced, oil and gas get zero subsidies (they are net taxpayers), nuclear gets less than $1, wind gets almost $6, and solar gets more than $40.

Something I have advocated for decades: let independent contractors have portable benefits.