Why elite colleges with the fewest low-income students get the most work-study money.
federal spending
Posted inEducation, Health Care, Higher Education, July/August 2013, Magazine
First Teach No Harm
The U.S. spends $13 billion a year subsidizing graduate medical education. Yet almost all of this money winds up producing the wrong kinds of doctors in the wrong places, with America’s most elite teaching hospitals being the worst offenders.
Posted inMagazine, March/April 2013
The Congress-Does-Nothing Deficit Reduction Plan
How “bracket creep” (the good kind) could make the long-term fiscal outlook better than everyone thinks.
Posted inBooks, Government, Health Care, January/February 2013, Magazine
Did Hurricane Sandy Save Obamacare?
How disaster relief justifies the welfare state.
Posted inBooks, Government, Magazine, November/December 2012
Act of Recovery
Only one national reporter, Michael Grunwald, bothered to take a detailed look at how well the $787 billion stimulus was spent. What he discovered confounds the Beltway conventional wisdom.
Posted inGovernment, July/August 2012, Magazine
How to Save Our Kids From Poverty in Old Age
The case for American Stakeholder Accounts.
Posted inEconomy, Government, Health Care, Magazine, November/December 2011
Shovel-Ready Clinics
A job creation idea so obviously good even Washington couldn’t possibly say no… could it?
Posted inGovernment, Magazine, November/December 2011
Taxing the Kindness of Strangers
Foster parents like us willingly pay a heavy price. The GOP wants us to pay more.
Posted inHealth Care, Magazine, November/December 2011
The Cure
The politics of debt have gotten so insane that both parties are on the verge of gutting Medicare. The moment might be right to actually fix it.
Posted inGovernment, July/August 2011, Magazine
20,000 Leagues Under the State
Beneath the surface of American government lurks a system of social programs for the wealthy that is consuming the federal budget. It’s time for progressives to do battle with tax expenditures.
