Middle-Aged White Suicide, Alcohol Abuse Linked to Loss of Religion
The rise in “deaths of despair” among middle-aged white Americans may be linked to the decline in religious practice, according to new research.
National Bureau of Economic Research
NBER: COVID Recession Shortest in History; Recovery Began Under Trump
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) declared Monday that the coronavirus recession lasted only two months — the shortest on record — and that the economic recovery began in May 2020 under President Donald Trump.
Study: Pandemic Spurs Employees to Work From Home, Leaving Democrat-Controlled Cities
A study projects employees will remain working remotely 20 percent of workdays, up 15 percent pre-pandemic, impacting Democrat-controlled cities.
Delingpole: Europe Is Waking Up to the Truth about the Coronavirus Scare
Ordinary people are coming to see that coronavirus has been massively oversold by our frightened, mendacious, control freak political class.
Pollak: Bogus NBER Paper Accuses Sean Hannity of Mass Murder
A team of economists has published a National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper that accuses Fox News host Sean Hannity of killing thousands of people through “misinformation” about the coronavirus pandemic.
MIT Professor: Subways Seeded the Massive Coronavirus Epidemic in NYC
A National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) working paper by MIT Professor Jeffrey E. Harris concludes that the New York City subway system “seeded the massive coronavirus epidemic” in the city.
Better OxyContin Leads to Worse Heroin Epidemic
The conventional wisdom on the opioid crisis is that prescription drug dependency was a major factor behind the surge of addictions and overdoses. This belief was challenged by studies demonstrating that prescription drug problems from the 1990s and 2000s were fading before the current opioid crisis began, and the real problem today is with street drugs like heroin and fentanyl. New research highlights a very sharp dividing line between the earlier pill problem and today’s drug crisis: OxyContin was reformulated in 2010 to cut down on abuse, so addicts turned to heroin.
Seattle’s $3 Minimum Wage Hike Cost Low Skilled Workers $1,500 a Year
A Seattle-sponsored analysis of the city’s $3 per hour minimum wage hike has found that it cost the average low-skilled worker $1,500 a year due to employers slashing hours.
Study: Seattle’s Minimum Wage Hike Hurting City’s Most Vulnerable Workers
A new study from the University of Washington says that Seattle’s hike in its minimum wage is hurting the very workers it was supposed to help.
H1-B Visas Drive U.S. Workers Away from Tech Jobs and Depress Wages
If we’re not producing enough high-skilled workers to fill tech jobs, it’s because we’re importing so many.
Study: Global Warming Will Kill Your Sex Life
Global warming will kill your sex life, according to a paper by the National Bureau of Economic Research.
California is Greece, But with Capital Gains
California not only has the highest poverty rate in the U.S. at 23.4 percent, but that rate is now also higher than Greece, at 22.3 percent.
Bold: Irvine Dumps $13.34-per-Hour ‘Living Wage’
The Irvine City Council voted 4 to 1 to begin dumping an eight-year-old “Living Wage” ordinance on Wednesday night that forces most of the city’s thousands of contractors to pay all employees at least $13.34 an hour.
Report: California’s High Welfare Benefits Attract New Immigrants
In a report entitled “Immigrants Tend to Live in High Welfare Benefit States,” published on Jan. 26, 2015, the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) determined that “the generous welfare benefits offered by some states have magnetic effects and alter the geographic sorting of immigrants in the United States”–attracting many to California.
National Bureau of Economic Research Dragged Into Jonathan Gruber Scandal
Much of the research assistant work performed for Professor Jonathan Gruber’s 2009 $392,600 contract with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to develop economic models for the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) seems to have been conducted by an employee of the NBER.
