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April 2015

April 27, 2015

Target’s new marketing strategy

You know, I used to shop at Target fairly regularly, back when we lived in...

April 26, 2015

Yes, Math matters

Here's a Nicholas Kristof column in the Times today, "Are You Smarter Than an 8th...

April 25, 2015

What is distinctive about the Armenian Genocide?

[what follows is incomplete; I'm working through trying to put the Armenian Genocide into context....

April 24, 2015

Why does Turkey deny the Armenian Genocide?

[Update below.] That's not a rhetorical question. I just finished reading the article in wikipedia...

April 23, 2015

The [working] poor you will always have with you, part 3: family planning

I'm going to throw some ideas out, half-formed, while I'm thinking of them, and pose...

April 22, 2015

Amigurumi! (and the travails of a would-be crafter)

What, you ask, is amigurumi? According to wikipedia, it's "the Japanese art of knitting or...

April 22, 2015

Is Chicago the next Detroit?, public schools edition

Yesterday I wrote about funding woes in the Detroit Public Schools. And what should be...

April 21, 2015

Charter Schools and Legacy Costs

Many years ago, in studying for actuarial exams, I recall a reading on public pensions,...

April 19, 2015

Why tight-leash parenting? Suburbanization.

Here's my ah-ha moment from this weekend: Earlier this week, Megan McArdle had a post...

April 17, 2015

We don’t need no stinkin’ qualifications

Earlier this week, I asked, "Who Supports Hillary?" and I've been reading bits and pieces...

April 17, 2015

Needs and wants, 2015 edition

Yesterday I listened to a training session at work in which the presenter described the...

April 16, 2015

From the library: The Great Beanie Baby Bubble, by Zac Bissonnette

This is what qualifies as "light reading" in my world. Nothing on heathcare, or pensions,...

April 16, 2015

Open Thread for Andre B. (poverty and the wage gap)

So, what should we do about women in poverty and/or the pay gap? I don't...

April 16, 2015

On Scouting — your input?

I have a few paragraphs drafted up and a few ideas I want to flesh...

April 15, 2015

Taxes on a postcard? Uh, no, thank you.

That's Ted Cruz's proposal: Imagine a simple flat tax that lets every American fill out...

April 15, 2015

“The [working] poor you will always have with you”: more on minimum and “living” wages

I'm still mulling over the issues I worked through in my prior post on the...

April 14, 2015

On “closing the gender wage gap”: no, it won’t “pull half of working single moms out of poverty”

Here's a piece that appeared in the Wonkblog at the Washington Post last week, "Closing...

April 14, 2015

Who Supports Hillary?

Hillary Clinton has now made it official, declaring her candidacy in a youtube video and...

April 13, 2015

Let’s start small: Medicare funding

I'm going to get in trouble for this one, but here goes: Why do we...

April 13, 2015

When did the idea of the “working poor” become a bad thing?

Here's the latest in the ongoing series of articles on the working poor, in this...

April 12, 2015