Unemployment benefits: Benefits vary widely across states, often misaligning with political stereotypes and cost of living differences (e.g., Texas offering more generous unemployment benefits than California).
“And he who has shown the greatest longing for him has been the great Emperor of China, who wrote me a letter in Chinese a month ago and sent it by a special courier. He asked me, or to be truthful, he begged me to send him Don Quixote, for he intended to found a college where the Spanish tongue wou...
Unconditional cash transfers are a key tool to combat America's mental health crisis
Everyone talks about Singapore as an effective (but some say cold) governance model. Many people wish that American cities and towns could follow Singapore's example. However, the ingredients of its success can already be found throughout America. With plenty of cities delivering impressive results....
Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs signed two significant housing bills on Tuesday, aiming to expand housing options and improve affordability for Arizonans. The bills will limit cities' ability to restrict backyard casitas and require denser housing near city centers.
Cincinnati's city planning commission voted 6-0 last Friday to pass Connected Communities, a proposed rewrite of the city's zoning code to increase density. However, the plan has faced growing opposition from residents concerned about its impact on parking, infrastructure, and potential exploitation...
After more than 14 hours of public comment and a meeting that spilled over into Friday, the Austin City Council passed Phase 2 of the HOME (Home Options for Middle-Income Empowerment) Initiative. The initiative, led by District 7 Council Member Leslie Pool, seeks to amend the city's land development...
I think the writer have the same opinion considering the way they use “Reagan’s CEQA”
Increase housing supply of anysort suppresses rent growth
A San Diego judge ruled that Huntington Beach violated California's housing element law, ordering the city to comply within 120 days in a major legal victory for state Attorney General Rob Bonta
On Tuesday, the Berkeley City Council directed city staff to draft an ordinance authorizing ADU condo sales, in line with Assembly Bill 1033, a law that took effect at the beginning of this year. The move aims to make homeownership more accessible in one of the Bay Area's most expensive markets, whe...
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly food stamps) provides nutritional support to over 41 million low-income Americans. However, a new working paper (Work Requirements with No Teeth Still Bite: Disenrollment and Labor Supply Effects of SNAP General Work Requirements
A few months ago, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers ordered Apple to change its app store rules. They didn't. Now she's very angry. Plus, the Antitrust Division is gearing up to go at Big Medicine.
A new working paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco finds that the historically unprecedented expansion of unemployment insurance (UI) benefits in the U.S. during the COVID-19 pandemic offset rising income inequality with only moderate impacts on job search behavior.
Not the first time these guys love their eccentric thumbnails
https://www.population.news/p/midlife-crisis-is-dead-in-34-countries
Why it matters The Colorado legislature has passed a groundbreaking bill (pun intended), HB24-1313, that requires cities designated as "transit-oriented communities" to allow greater residential density near transit lines. The move is expected to increase housing affordability and promote sustainabl...
it reduces child poverty!
I guess downvotes love keeping kids poor
Providing child tax benefits to low-income parents without earnings may not substantially reduce their employment, suggests a new NBER working paper, Child Tax Benefits and Labor Supply: Evidence from California by Jacob Goldin, Tatiana Homonoff, Neel A. Lal, Ithai Lurie, and Katherine Michelmore.
Agree on that part,
But it is a useful summary of an interesting research paper considering how anyone under the age of 40 is miserable
A new NBER Working Paper, Countries For Old Men: An Analysis Of The Age Pay Gap by Nicola Bianchi and Matteo Paradisi, reveals, reveals that the pay gap between older and younger workers has been widening for decades across high-income countries, with wages of older workers growing much faster than ...
Key Findings: The well-known "U-shape" in well-being and "hump shape" in unhappiness by age has disappeared in the U.S., U.K. and many other countries in recent years Unhappiness now declines monotonically with age rather than peaking in midlife The change is driven by a rapid deterioration in the m...
A California appeals court ruled this week that cities and counties can more easily zone for smaller, lower-cost housing developments of up to 10 units, even if local voters previously tried to limit such projects. Why it matters: The decision is a significant win for housing advocates, developers, ...
What’s to stop the chip-making giant from shoveling taxpayer grants into more stock buybacks?
We did an analysis of the Google antitrust trial. Last week, over half of the trial was held behind closed doors because the judge, Amit Mehta, is deferring to Google on the need for secrecy.
