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December 2013

December 21, 2013

ObamaCare is not a Train Wreck

It's just not.Look, when a train wreck occurs, the train derails. It's inoperable. ObamaCare reminds...

December 20, 2013

Year-end charitable donations (your input?)

So every year we end up making our larger charitable donations at the last minute....

December 20, 2013

The “living wage” and “Wal-Mart subsidies”

OK, so it's bad form to have two scare quotes in the title of my...

December 18, 2013

What does it take to unionize?

This is, in part, a bit of an elaboration on a prior post. Back in...

December 18, 2013

“One man. One Woman. Or More”

You knew this was coming -- the New York Times' "Room for Debate" subject this...

December 17, 2013

What’s a “fair” wage for a Personal Care Aide?

The Tribune featured a story they picked off Bloomberg today, though apparently the article itself...

December 16, 2013

On Jesus’s birthplace

It occurred to me this morning that having a blog means that I have a...

December 16, 2013

Large Catholic families: they still exist

A decade or so ago, I would have said that large Catholic families are in...

December 14, 2013

Minimum-wage thought for the day

No, I don't mean a "thought for the day" that's worth being paid the minimum...

December 14, 2013

On “Fight for 15”

So I finally got around to looking at the "Fight for 15" website and was...

December 13, 2013

And so it begins . . . the exodus from employer-provided health insurance

I'm guessing that my readers also take a look at the Drudge Report links, so...

December 12, 2013

On the minimum wage

Every now and again there's an article or a blog post or an opinion piece...

December 11, 2013

Is Congress *trying* to destroy pensions now?

I haven't really read much about the late-breaking budget deal yet; here's a Bloomberg article...

December 10, 2013

Parking a link: Mandela’s past?

OK, so I finally finished a big project at work and am a bit more...

December 10, 2013

“Adopt a family”

This is just a 5-minute gripe.This is that time of year when we're all encouraged...

December 10, 2013

In the news. . .

It can't have escaped the notice of my readers that there are topics about which...

December 09, 2013

Shocker: Illinois lottery failing to lure the affluent!

The headline of the day at the Tribune: "Could sluggish Illinois lottery aim higher? Private...

December 09, 2013

Thought for the day: on income inequality

A while back, I was involved in benefits benchmarking studies, and worked with people who...

December 08, 2013

Scattered thoughts on the minimum wage and income inequality

So the minimum wage and income inequality are in the news again.First of all, I'm...

December 07, 2013

How do you solve a problem like “Maria”?

Everybody's getting snarky about the NBC "Sound of Music" production.Here are the obvious observations (every...

December 04, 2013

Do you trust your congressman?

Drudge this morning links to an article in the "Quorum Report" (a site I'd never...

December 03, 2013

Naan!

So, I'm not much of a photographer -- the above image came from google images,...

December 03, 2013

Medicaid expansion and OPM

Yeah, "OPM" is a shibboleth of sorts -- if you follow certain blogs you know...

December 02, 2013

Food and housing – Section 8 Vouchers

So here's the thought for the day:Food stamps are an entitlement program. If you meet...

December 02, 2013

The food stamp challenge (again)

Chicago Tribune columnist Barbara Brotman is the latest journalist to "take the food stamp challenge"...

November 2013

November 30, 2013

Back from a family visit . . . more on single parents and a father’s obligations

So this comes out of a discussion while visiting with family, about the situation of...

November 28, 2013

“Grey Thursday” and the economics of opening hours

So I'm visiting with the parents, dinner, football, and Pumkin Chunkin are over, and the...

November 25, 2013

My Wish List recommendation

So every year Megan McArdle tells us the best in kitchen gadgetry, and instapundit.com features...

November 25, 2013

On poverty: should we all just pack up and go home?

So apparently this article on poverty has now gone viral -- appearing on friends' facebook...

November 23, 2013

On marriage and parenting – a bit of a theory

So there was a thread over at the Chicago Tribune columnist Eric Zorn's blog, on...

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