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August 2013

August 25, 2013

Here’s another thing that bugs me about the financial aid process at universities

Once upon a time, financial aid consisted of merit scholarships funded by outside donors, and...

August 25, 2013

What will it really take to control the cost of college tuition?

Will Obama's approach of differentiating financial aid based on how a college fares in a...

August 25, 2013

Jane’s rules of the road for cyclists

1) stoplights and stop signs: Bikers have to stop at all stop lights, just like cars. ...

August 24, 2013

What I’ve learned about blogging

In a way, starting a blog is like fishing, but your lake is the comment...

August 24, 2013

ObamaCare fixes and “saving face”?

Let's start with the position that ObamaCare is a disaster in multiple ways, and in...

August 23, 2013

Have you ever really looked at the financial aid formulas?

Colleges are always talking about how they meet demonstrated need, either through grants or loans,...

August 23, 2013

Where does free exercise of religion end, and discrimination start?

Apparently, the state supreme court in New Mexico rejected the appeal of a woman found...

August 22, 2013

What I have to say about JC Penny’s

Yes, I'm again following the strategy of "comment on another blogger's post, then link to...

August 22, 2013

UPS cuts spousal health benefits coverage — is ObamaCare at fault?

Well, yes and no. In the UPS announcement (linked to here, at the Via Meadia...

August 21, 2013

The world according to Slate, free childcare edition

Slate is always good for a few laughs. Today's article: why the government should subsidize...

August 21, 2013

Detroit’s pensions – some comments from an actuarial perspective

I hope to have time to flesh this out more later, but Megan McArdle has...

August 21, 2013

Correlation is not causation, childhood hobbies edition

So this morning, there was a Chicago Tribune article interviewing an author of a book (...

August 20, 2013

What I learned about autism today

What I learned about autism today: So I took the kids to the pool and...

August 20, 2013

Is declining attendance at National Parks a problem?

The Economist (in this week's print edition, and online here) reports that attendance at America's National...

August 19, 2013

Fill in the blank: (on retirement)

Regardless of what kind of Social Security system the government might implement in the future,...

August 19, 2013

Is “I just won’t retire” a feasible solution?

This post is a bit of a placeholder, as I need to dig up some...

August 17, 2013

Is Social Security a good return on the investment?

That's the usual argument, from the conservative side, about why Social Security reform is needed:...

August 14, 2013

My regional pizza gripe

This is just something of a pet peeve of mine: "Chicago-style" pizza is not what...

August 12, 2013

International Perspectives on Employer-Provided Healthcare benefits

Yeah, my post titles are pretty lame. But I was thinking about the fact that...

August 11, 2013

Problems with ObamaCare: discontinuities

There are a lot of issues with ObamaCare. Some of the largest issues, and those...

August 10, 2013

Open Thread

Ha! That would be a laugh. Blogger tells me that the "comment on other blogs...

August 08, 2013

Parenting, opting-out, maternity leave, and Judith Warner

(Sorry, this is a long one -- bear with me!)So a week or so ago,...

August 07, 2013

The child-free: a very rambly post

Ugh -- even that term is an irritant to me. We use the suffix "-free"...

August 07, 2013

What’s going to happen to Germany?

With respect to the birth rate, that is.Their TFR (total fertility rate) is 1.4 children...

August 06, 2013

Wow — libertarians are extraordinarily stubborn!

So the AEI has put out a new proposal for a VoucherCare-like healthcare system, which...

August 06, 2013

The Working Poor

So a while back, I posted about living wage calculators. And here's what I'm thinking:...

August 06, 2013

The Food Stamp calculator

It's not hard to find, actually. Pretty much the first hit on "Illinois food stamps"...

August 04, 2013

Ford Heights is Detroit, writ small.

Ford Heights has no library. The library taxing district takes in $20,000 per year, because...

July 2013

July 30, 2013

From the library: What to Expect when No One’s Expecting (part 1, the raw numbers)

So I've been reading What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster,...

July 29, 2013

Are “men on strike”?

That's the claim of the new book by Helen Smith. I have in mind to...

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