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April 2015

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

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

March 2015

March 31, 2015

Required Minimum Distributions: a small anecdote

Do retirees really, consistently, have the level of financial understanding necessary to manage, not a...

March 31, 2015

Is a childhood love of reading crucial for success?

Here's something I started typing up a while back; thought I'd finish this as a...

March 30, 2015

The “Harper Promise”

In the local news is the newly-announced program at the local community college, the "Harper...

March 30, 2015

Things I am not writing about

I haven't written one of these in a while: that sort of post wherein I...

March 29, 2015

Back from The Mitten: More thoughts about Detroit

First item: For those of you who don't do Twitter, a Detroiter (besides the one...

March 27, 2015

Report from The D: it takes more than a Whole Foods to revive a city

Everyone's oohing and aaahing about the claimed revival of Detroit, as epitomized by the new...

March 25, 2015

Update on Prairie Crossing

I suppose "update" isn't quite the right word, even though it feels to me like...

March 24, 2015

There is no such thing as “White Hispanic” – except in the census definitions

So Ted Cruz announced his candidacy for President, and now we're back to the question...

March 23, 2015

Are Catholic schools worth it? Part two: dynamic scoring

So I had a long chat with my husband over dinner (yes, a rare treat...

March 22, 2015

Are Catholic schools worth it? Or should we throw in the towel?

No, this is not just a rhetorical question. At church, I listened to the pastor,...

March 21, 2015

On Juan Barros: I’m just stumped

The Anchoress (Elizabeth Scalia) reports, "Pope Francis has appointed Juan de la Cruz Barros Madrid...

March 21, 2015

Are we romanticizing poor families in history?

The actuary in me insists on getting the math right; the historian in me insists...

March 20, 2015

From the library: America’s Bitter Pill, by Steven Brill

This book is a bit of a bait-and-switch; you all know about the famous "Bitter...