Month: July 2018
photo by P. A. Jensen
Politics & Policy
Why Rural Americans Do Not Support a Federal Housing Subsidy
The more progressive wing of the Democratic Party has embraced housing as a human right. This sounds like a good idea—after all, it is the premise for Habitat for Humanity. Unlike Habitat for Humanity, though, how progressives execute their housing
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Politics & PolicyData-Driven
From Coasts to Countryside, There Can Be No Single Living Wage
“The current federal minimum wage is starvation pay and must become a living wage. We must increase it to fifteen dollars an hour over the next several years.” So says Bernie Sanders on his website, summarizing a common view within
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Politics & Policy
Tax-Deductible Gym Memberships? Maybe If You Live in a City.
Republicans want to make gym memberships tax-deductible. That idea won’t work out for rural Americans. Peter Suderman, in the libertarian magazine Reason, has highlighted how the GOP wants to incentivize exercise via the tax code. He outlines how the GOP
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