Do Immigrants Depress Wages? How Labor Markets Actually Respond
Decades of research show immigration does not lower wages for most U.S.-born workers. Small, localized effects are limited, while long-term impacts include job growth and higher productivity. Wage suppression is driven by labor market structure, not immigration.
Immigration: Numbers vs. Narratives
Actual immigration flows, eligibility rules, and economic effects contrasted with political storylines that inflate scale or distort motivation.
School Funding Myths
How schools are funded, why gaps persist, and which assumptions about “waste” or “fairness” don’t match the underlying formulas.
Public Benefits and the “Dependency” Narrative
Who uses benefits, for how long, and why. Data shows churn, work patterns, and structural barriers—not the myth of permanent reliance.
Crime Trends vs. Crime Stories
Long-term crime data compared to the narratives headlines create. What’s actually rising, what’s falling, and why perception diverges.
Housing Costs & Causes
System-level drivers of rising rents and prices—supply constraints, financing rules, zoning, and market power, not individual behavior.
Homelessness: What Data Actually Shows
What’s driving visible homelessness—housing costs, exit bottlenecks, local capacity—and why common explanations miss the underlying system.
Public Transit Funding
How buses and rail systems are financed, why revenue gaps persist, and how cost structure—not rider blame—shapes service quality and reach.
Childcare Affordability
What families actually pay, why costs climbed faster than wages, and how labor, regulation, and market scarcity drive the affordability crisis.