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February 2018

February 22, 2018

From the library: Actung Baby, An American Mom on the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children, by Sara Zaske

Turns out, the Germans are actually pretty dang similar to the Dutchies, as profiled in...

February 22, 2018

Small-gripes open thread

So I have a number of posts in the queue, so to speak, whether as...

February 21, 2018

An alternate approach to curtailing mass shootings?

I don't really have much to say on the issue of mass shootings. I don't...

February 20, 2018

From the library: Antonio’s Gun and Delfino’s Dream, True Tales of Mexican Migration, by Sam Quinones

So. . . I got this book (an older one, published in 2007 and deaccessioned...

February 19, 2018

Some “Black Panther” thoughts

Or, rather, Black Panther thoughts, but I can't format a post title -- the point being,...

February 19, 2018

Update from Denmark: the [gender pay gap] you will always have with you.

The title is, of course, a play on Jesus's statement, "the poor you will always...

February 13, 2018

From the twitter feed, #3, the Obama portraits

CNN reported on the Obama portrait unveiling yesterday, but it's not yet available in the public...

February 13, 2018

From the twitter feed, #2, “legal Dreamers”

This is a very short item but something I came across the other day that...

February 13, 2018

From the twitter feed, #1, “Harvest Boxes”

As reported in various sources, including Politico, the Trump administration in its latest budget has...

February 12, 2018

Can Teresa Ghilarducci rescue retirement?, part 2

Yesterday I spent too much time summarizing Teresa Ghilarducci's Rescuing Retirement, in which she promotes...

February 11, 2018

Can Teresa Ghilarducci rescue retirement?

That's the claim, anyway. She's been flogging her "Guaranteed Retirement Account" concept for longer than...

February 09, 2018

Getting women into the workforce is easy-peasy (sort of)

I've been sitting on a Brookings paper that argues that we need to take a...

February 08, 2018

Putting my actuary hat on: the Rubio-approved family leave proposal

Something that caught my attention via twitter today: a proposal for a new way forward...

February 07, 2018

Two (incomplete) immigration anecdotes

The first, from an article in the Chicago Tribune, "A Kansas chemistry professor got his...

February 06, 2018

How far should sports-access for the disabled go?

Being obnoxiously facetious here: I am spectacularly non-athletic. I get out of breath quickly, I'm...

February 05, 2018

Whose fault is the Nazi GOP candidate?

In the news today, a literal Nazi will be on the ballot as the Republican...

February 05, 2018

The “Fantasy of Replacement”

A few paragraph from Saturday's Ross Douthat column in the Times, after describing the state...

February 04, 2018

Should we take in the Rohingya?

This is really just a question for open discussion, but consider that, when it comes...

February 03, 2018

Do we need immigrants?

In my twitter feed this morning: which got me to thinking about her claim, "robust...

February 02, 2018

Why I object to unconditional “Dream” legalization

To here the activists tell it, Congress ought to, indeed has the moral obligation, to...

January 2018

January 31, 2018

Sell $100 billion in bonds? Not completely crazy

That's the proposal in front of the Illinois legislature: the state pension is underfunded to...

January 30, 2018

Amazonian Healthcare? Good luck . . .

So Megan McArdle reports today that A partnership of Amazon.com Inc., Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and...

January 30, 2018

Will immigrants integrate, or not?

Here are two admittedly-broad characterizations. Immigration-skeptics worry that unskilled illegal (or even legal) immigrants will...

January 29, 2018

It’s expensive to be poor, part 2: banking

"It's expensive to be poor" refers to the various ways in which the poor pay...

January 28, 2018

It’s expensive to be poor, part 1: rent

Or, "From the library: Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City, by Matthew Desmond."...

January 26, 2018

Jane the Actuary solves illegal immigration!

Most Americans believe the following two things: We should allow that portion of the illegal...

January 24, 2018

So apparently Pritzker is the moderate among the Democrats

I read and wrote about J.B. Pritzker yesterday, and, by coincidence, there was a debate...

January 23, 2018

What a DACA photoessay reveals

The line we generally hear about illegal immigrants is this: they lived in grinding poverty...

January 23, 2018

Q. What would constitute a fair DACA compromise?

A. Whatever Tom Cotton and Dick Durbin can come to an agreement on. Look, I...

January 23, 2018

Is Illinois about to level up?

That is, get even more Illinoisey, with greater levels of dysfunction? After all, the governor's...

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