- Despite President Biden’s commitment to being the most pro-union president in history and despite Secretary of Labor Julie Su’s calm that 2023 was a “banner year for labor actions and unions,” the share of US workers who actually belong to a union is shrinking – and has been shrinking for decades.
- How Covid lockdowns affected learning: a decrease in average scores for eighth graders, losing nearly half of the gains made in the previous 30 years.
- The government’s mandatory health care spending now exceeds its entire discretionary budget.
- Women aged 18 to 30 are now 30 percentage points more liberal than their male contemporaries. This is also true internationally.
- FREOPP reviews Modernizing Medicare.
Category: Saturday Links
Saturday Links
- Dr. Francis Collins (Fauci’s boss) changes his tune: Covid-19 may have come from a Chinese lab.
- Just how much are the elites out of touch with the rest of America?
- Eleven states plus Washington, D.C. provide full health insurance coverage to more than 1 million low-income immigrants. regardless of their legal status.
- A review of more than 120 academic papers on Certificate of Need (CON) laws found that 89% of results were negative or neutral, and that negative effects were five times more common than positive effects.
Saturday Links
- Biden touts record Obamacare enrollment. Reasons not mentioned: (1) they are giving away health insurance for free and (2) millions are being kicked out of Medicaid.
- What Malthus got wrong. And why that is still relevant today.
- Jamie Dimon is pessimistic about the economy and the world.
- Why is the VA giving out free medical care to illegal immigrants while 418,000 veterans claims are waiting in the backlog?
Saturday Links
- Sally Pipes on the House Republican health bill.
- The American prisoner/homicide ratio is about average for the First World, whereas the number of police per homicide is very low. Recommended
- Scientists discover a new tool to combat drug-resistant bacteria.
- Eli Lilly to sell its weight loss drug directly to patients.
- Biden gives federal workers a 5.2% pay raise. Social Security retirees are getting only 3.2% cost of living increase.
- Where are the new jobs? Health care and government work top the list.