Thomas Macurdy News Today

We know that the past few months have seen an uptick in media coverage of Stanford’s leftist gaffs and fiascos. From bureaucrats stifling social life to a ‘harmful language’ initiative to DEI-fueled scoldings of a federal judge, Stanford hasn’t exactly maintained its commitment to a culture of academic

Current immigration practices, both legal and illegal, operate like a system of trans-national welfare outreach bringing millions of fiscally dependent individuals into the U.S.

Households headed by persons without a high school diploma impose a significant fiscal burden on other taxpayers.

Older adults who received the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine were less likely to be hospitalized for pneumonia, a new study found.

The labor market's perceived weakness has led to calls for anotherextension of temporary unemployment insurance benefits, but thiswould increase spending by roughly $1 billion per month and isunnecessary given the demonstrated strengthening of the labormarket. Any extension of jobless claims generates exactly the wrongincentives and increases the average duration of unemployment forthose who qualify.

This paper examines the distribution of government, benefits, services and taxes by income class.

Raising the minimum wage creates winners and losers. Those workers who receive higher pay benefit. But the money for that higher pay comes from somewhere. Advocates for a minimum wage hike usually argue that “somewhere” means profits. They present starting-wage increases as a way to redistribute wealth from business owners to low-wage workers.