Alex Nowrasteh and Krit Chanwong In a 2003 paper, economist George Borjas used an innovative method to controversially find that immigration had a negative effect on the relative wages of native-born workers…
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Jeffrey A. Singer On May 29, Texas lawmakers approved HB 2038, a bill that could significantly expand access to health care by tapping into a long-overlooked resource: immigrant and unmatched…
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Colleen Hroncich A microschool in a converted bus? Depending on your perspective, it may sound crazy, or it may sound amazing. To former public school teacher Sarah Harrington, who was…
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Jeffrey Miron A critical issue for the school choice movement is how charter and voucher programs treat religious schools. Supreme Court decisions from 2002 and 2022 hold that the Constitution’s…
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Chris Edwards I’ve described 10 ways that criminals steal from the food stamp program. This is an important issue because the program, run by the US Department of Agriculture (USDA),…
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Michael F. Cannon Grace-Marie Turner was such a powerful and constant force in the free-market health care movement, it’s hard to imagine it without her. She was at the 1974…
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Chris Edwards and Yasmeen Kallash-Kyler Many American cities suffer from political corruption. We assembled 15 case studies to illustrate the many ways that local government officials illegally abuse their positions.…
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The FTC Event that Wasn’t: The Attention Economy Workshop Misses an Opportunity for Meaningful Discussion
David Inserra Tomorrow, June 4, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) will hold a workshop titled “The Attention Economy: How Big Tech Firms Exploit Children and Hurt Families.” As if that…