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Immigrants have been awarded 38% (45 of 117) of the Nobel Prizes won by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000.
Immigrants also have been awarded 31% (24 of 78) of Nobels won by Americans in economics, including 28% since 2000
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BREAKING: The FTC just banned non-compete agreements.
The Federal Trade Commission has issued a final rule making it illegal for bosses to make workers sign noncompetes in any scenario, and voiding nearly all existing noncompetes.
This is a game changer for American workers.
Great story @jonchesto! Yes, we need to address the housing laggards, but let's also reward the housing champions!
Housing crisis: Has Everett figured out a solution? bostonglobe.com/2024/02/17/b… via @BostonGlobe
Great piece by @amydain!
Perspective in @BostonGlobeMag: Zoning in the Boston suburbs is stacked against families with children trib.al/RT4C739
Great piece by @ScottKirsner. Who will speak up for MA?
Innovation Economy: Massachusetts must take charge of its narrative trib.al/PfUIGyO
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Fabulous piece
noahpinion.blog/p/the-new-in…
@Noahpinion is seeing the full chessboard of America's new industrial policy—its history, its motivations, its political fights, its points of tension, its strengths and weaknesses—with extraordinary clarity
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Important article by @djrothkopf.
The Biden administration has overseen the biggest transformation of U.S. economic policy in four decades. thedailybeast.com/how-bideno…
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Adding significant housing density to our communities doesn’t have to come at the scale of large skyscrapers.
Paris 🇫🇷: 53,000 / sq mi
Boston 🇺🇸: 14,000 / sq mi
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Rep. Antonio Cabral of New Bedford says the Housing Development Incentive Program, or HDIP, addresses the critical need for middle-income housing. commonwealthmagazine.org/opi…
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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens bit.ly/3ngtz4C
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Today’s progressive approaches were crafted when the main task of progressivism was protecting the disadvantaged from big companies and the tyranny of the majority. Today, though, the sticking point for progressive dreams is a lack of state capacity.
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When you’re *so close* to understanding that a generous welfare state is a precondition to anything resembling a meritocracy
Great story by @dscharfGlobe. When cities work well, they are amazing.
You’ve heard the story many times: white money squeezing Black and Latino residents out of neighborhoods they’ve long called home. But in cities all over America, a very different tale has been playing out at the same time. My latest for @GlobeIdeas. apps.bostonglobe.com/opinion…
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COMMENTARY: "In the U.S., it's almost as if we accept postpartum depression as an inevitable outcome," writes Chelsea Conaboy. "We drop new parents in the stream, with a promise to catch them — if we can." wbur.fm/3LKAu0r
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The number of women who died during and soon after childbirth surged to its highest level in nearly 60 years, exacerbating a yearslong trend that has made the U.S. the most dangerous place among high-income countries to give birth on.wsj.com/402ndnI
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I’m happy to see many (former) libertarians come around to the idea that the economy functions best when the government steps in to provide generous social insurance to protect against risks the free market won’t insure. Make sure to apply this logic broadly!
Really great.
This essay has more in it than the median book.
writings.stephenwolfram.com/…
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Yes, the changing technology-driven forces-of-production hardware of society greatly constrain and shape the relations-of-production and superstructural econo-politico-socio-cultural software of society that puts the forces-of-production to work and does the distribution... 1/