January 20, 2014 Archives

Week of January 20, 2014 Archives

RealClearPolicy Morning Edition

Monday, January 20

The American Diet in Three Simple Charts

Tom Philpott, Mother Jones

Stop Obamacare's Outrageous Bailouts

Ramesh Ponnuru, Bloomberg View

Risk Corridors: A Subsidy, Not a Bailout

Scott Gottlieb, Forbes

Minimum Wage and EITC: One, or Both?

Mark Thoma, MarketWatch

Marriage's Limited Anti-Poverty Potential

Jared Bernstein, NYT

More Colleges Should Be Like Amherst

Sophie Quinton, National Journal

Should Voucher Students Take State Tests?

Rick Hess, Education Week

Silence Over a West Virginia Chemical Spill

Eugene Robinson, Wash Post

Detroit's Bankruptcy and Casino Money

Pierog & Lichterman, Reuters

What the U.S. Can Learn From Labor in Germany

Finkin & Kochan, LAT

Three Dangers of Losing Net Neutrality

Wired Opinion

Innovation Relies on Immigration

Timothy Taylor, Conversable Economist

Tuesday, January 21

Obama Is Making Climate Change Worse

McKibben & Tidwell, Politico

Health Savings Accounts Are Driving Down Costs

Peter Ferrara, Forbes

Preventive Care Isn't Always Free Under the ACA

Michelle Andrews, KHN

How to Make Prescription Drugs Cheaper

von Eschenbach & Howard, Hill

Let's Start Paying Jurors

Casey B. Mulligan, New York Times

Inequality: What Oxfam Doesn't Say

James Pethokoukis, AEIdeas

Five Facts About Global Inequality

Derek Thompson, The Atlantic

Cash Isn't What the Long-Term Unemployed Need

Aparna Mathur, RCM

Do Minimum Wage Hikes Cause Recessions?

Robert VerBruggen, RCPolicy

The Wrong Lesson to Learn From Detroit

Teague Paterson, Huffington Post

Let People Commit Crimes (Safely)

Lauren Kirchner, Pacific Standard

Cali Needs a Serious Infrastructure Upgrade

Joel Kotkin, New Geography

Fixing the Gender Pay Gap

Claudia Goldin, Bloomberg View

Why Roe Said What It Did

Justin Buckley Dyer, Library of Law & Liberty

Wednesday, January 22

Paying Women to Choose Life

Daniel Allott, National Review Online

Obamacare Bailouts: Not Really Bailouts

Christopher Holt, RCPolicy

Can Canadian Health Care Work Here?

Sanghavi & Bleiberg, Brookings

Family Breakdown Crushes Social Mobility

W. Bradford Wilcox, Slate

Rethinking the Inequality Debate

Mark Schmitt, The New Republic

The Economic Consequences of Inequality

Daniel Altman, Foreign Policy

Are Unions Overcharging Non-Members?

Steve Malanga, Public Sector

3 Things We Don't Know About the Labor Market

David Callahan, Demos

'60 Minutes' Clocks Clean Tech

Benjamin Zycher, The American

Pittsburgh Fights School Privatization

Theo Anderson, In These Times

Behavioral Economics Is Overrated

Allison Schrager, Quartz

The Right Way to Help Homeless Families

David Bornstein, NY Times

Thursday, January 23

The 1% Didn't Kill the American Dream

James Pethokoukis, AEIdeas

No Decline in Mobility? Old News

Jared Bernstein, On the Economy

What if There Isn't Much Mobility Anywhere?

Matthew Yglesias, Slate

The Gender Wage Gap, State by State

Susan Milligan, Stateline

Improving Our Voting Systems

John Fund, National Review Online

Obama's Elections Commission Neglects Race

Brentin Mock, Demos

Is the ACA Reducing the Uninsured Rate?

Jonathan Cohn, New Republic

Why You're Better Off With Obamacare

David Simas, White House

Recession Is Being Redefined As Recovery

Jeffrey Snider, RCM

Education Reform Is Working

Arne Duncan, Washington Post

Even Our Rich Kids Aren't Scoring Well

Diehm & Resmovits, HuffPo

Why Some People Oppose Gov't Aid to the Poor

Jeffrey Dorfman, Forbes

What Jobs Will the Robots Take?

Derek Thompson, The Atlantic

Focus on Contraception, Not Marriage

Rebecca Maynard, Brookings

Friday, January 24

Conservative Ideas Won the War on Poverty

Scott Winship, Politico Mag

EITC: A Bipartisan Poverty Initiative

Chuck Marr, Huffington Post

Why Poor Americans Aren't Up in Arms

Will Wilkinson, The Economist

What It's Like to Lose Unemployment

Dana Liebelson, Mother Jones

How Much Inequality Does Parental Income Explain?

Greg Mankiw

A Center-Left Entitlements Strategy

William Galston, American Prospect

How to Improve Medical Cost Transparency

John Graham, NCPA

The Next Step in Health Care Reform

Matthew Yglesias, Slate

Has the ACA Slowed Health Care Cost Growth?

Joseph Minarik, CED

Obamacare Enrollment Chugs Along

Jonathan Cohn, New Republic

The Administration Twists Sex-Assault Stats

Katherine Connell, NRO

Gentrification Isn't Bad for the Poor

Tim Fernholz, Quartz

The Coal Industry Impoverishes West Virginia

Omar Ghabra, The Nation

Prohibition's Sobering Lessons for Marijuana

Stephen Mihm, Bloomberg

Sunday, January 26

The Era of Genetically Modified Humans

David DiSalvo, Forbes

Is the American Dream Dead in the South?

Matthew O'Brien, Atlantic

Obamacare: Who's Subsidizing Whom?

Seth Chandler, ACA Death Spiral

The Business of Climate Change

Michael Mechanic & McKenzie Funk, Grist

Corporate Welfare Can't Save Detroit

Shikha Dalmia, Reason

Where Publicly Funded Schools Can Teach Creationism

Chris Kirk, Slate

Just How Tight Are Mortgage Standards?

Dean Baker, CEPR

NSA's Metadata Collection: Not a Big Deal

Jack Riley, Los Angeles Times

The Debt Trap of For-Profit Colleges

Adam Rust, Salon

Bipartisan Commissions Are Useless

Steve Chapman, Chicago Tribune

Stagnant Mobility Isn't Good Enough

Richard Reeves, Brookings Institution

Don't Leave Inequality to Economists

Justin Fox, Harvard Business Review