It is axiomatic among social scientists that concentrating poor people in public housing projects accentuates the social pathologies that make poverty self-perpetuating and unbearable. The oft-touted solution is to create more mixed-income neighborhoods that de-concentrate poverty. Presumably, the presence of working- and middle-class households people would moderate the anti-social behavior...
I continue to be concerned about visions of an autonomous vehicle future based not only on the impressive capabilities of fully (level 4) self-driving cars but also of fleets of robotaxis replacing personal vehicles. These would, indeed, be major changes. But how soon large numbers of people will accept such...
(Editor’s note: articles such as this are run in the Jefferson Policy Journal because the outcome of lawsuits such as this will have an impact on Virginia since the outcome will encourage or discourage similar actions.) The Des Moines Water Works (DMWW) federal case is coming to a close. DMWW...
Having already done yeoman’s work stifling economic growth and job creation, President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency is doubling down again. The United States created a paltry 38,000 new jobs in May: one for every 8,000 Americans. Its labor force participation rate is a miserable 63% – meaning 93 million Americans...
Nearly 70 of Virginia’s top business, government, and academic leaders packed a Thomas Jefferson Institute luncheon at the state capitol to hear former Republican Congressman Tom Davis and former Democratic Congressman Martin Frost discuss their recent book, A Partisan Divide. Davis and Frost, who headed their respective party’s congressional campaign...
It is sad that the United States, a country that used to be a magnet for businesses to start, grow and prosper, has created such a byzantine tax and regulatory structure that some of our premier companies seek to leave our shores simply to remain competitive.
... Save Virginia’s Collateral Source Rule By Burton J. Rubin You’re driving south on Interstate 95 when you are suddenly rear-ended by a drunk driver. Your hospital bills will be high, your new car is totaled and it will be many months before you can return to work. But when you...
Uber and Lyft, known mainly for providing taxi-like services, may find sprawling Sun-Belt cities to be the most hospitable markets for their new car-pooling services. That’s one of the conclusions arising from a new Morgan Stanley report on the proliferation of Uber- and Lyft-style services across the United States. The...
Thirty years ago this month, the first issue of Metro Business was published. Times were certainly different back then. The region is now larger geographically and by the number of people employed. And the type of firms driving the economy has changed dramatically in the past 30 years.In 1986, the...
The Clean Water Act (CWA) “…continues to raise troubling questions regarding the Government’s power to cast doubt on the full use and enjoyment of private property throughout the Nation.” Justices Kennedy, Thomas, and Alito made this point in a Supreme Court decision on May 31 about the overreach of the...
