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The University of Chicago is obsessed with cost-benefit analysis. At a school where the most popular major is economics, this comes as no shock. But the mentality that some things are worth our attention, time, or funds because they are “logical” extends far beyond economics. In my Public Policy Implementation class, our literature deemed it...

It turns out that Americans under 40 did pretty well during the pandemic-era.A new analysis from Liberty Street Economics finds younger Americans saw their

Younger workers enjoyed the biggest percentage gain in wealth since the pandemic, the New York Federal Reserve found.

But Americans under 40 still hold significantly less wealth than older generations.