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July 11, 2019
U.S. migration
July 11, 2019
How the Location of Creative Talent is Changing

Comparing 2005 to 2017, we would see a spread in the geography of creative talent that could stimulate growth in stagnant U.S. regions.

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July 10, 2019
restaurant psychology
July 10, 2019
The Minimum Wage Floor Debate

The estimated impact of a federal minimum wage increase to $10, $12, or $15 will create a range of tradeoffs between jobs and earnings.

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July 9, 2019
prescription spending
July 9, 2019
Six New Facts To Know About Medicare

Ideal for considering Medicare For All, this Medicare update conveys six facts about Medicare enrollment, Medicare geography, and Medicare popularity.

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July 8, 2019
AV ethical dilemmas
July 8, 2019
When Cars Have To Decide Whether to Kill Grandma

Like people, autonomous vehicles will have moral dilemmas that require ethical decision-making but it could be tough deciding what is ethical.

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July 7, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and unemployment adjustment
July 7, 2019
What To Do About Manufacturing Unemployment

Looking at manufacturing unemployment, we can ask if the Trade Adjustment Assistance program is one way to help workers adjust to a new economy.

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July 2, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and Medicare worries
July 2, 2019
The Problem With Healthcare Price Shopping

While healthcare price transparency sounds like a logical way to constrain soaring healthcare costs, the results were not quite what we expected.

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July 1, 2019
unconstitutional parking tickets
July 1, 2019
When a Parking Ticket Is Unconstitutional

When the police use their chalk lines on tires as the basis for parking tickets, they could be violating the U.S. Constitution.

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June 30, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and free tuition
June 30, 2019
Why Free Tuition Is Like An Onion

When Kalamazoo, Michigan made college more accessible to high school graduates through a free tuition program, they were surprised by some of the results.

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June 28, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and pizza purchases
June 28, 2019
An Unusual Pizza Market

When we compare pizza competition on an island to everywhere else, we wind up with some of what we expect but not entirely.

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June 27, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and lost wallets
June 27, 2019
The Countries That Return Lost Wallets

Looking at honor systems in stores and for lost wallets, we can see how people respond and where to find the most honesty.

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June 26, 2019
Weekly Economic News Roundup and policy and product gender inequity
June 26, 2019
Why Snow Removal in Sweden Is Sexist

Frequently invisible, the gender inequity we could see in our public policies and product design extends to snow removal and pianos

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June 25, 2019
European exports
June 25, 2019
The Little-Known Impact of Chinese Tariffs

Whereas the headlines tell us all about the impact of Chinese tariffs on the prices of U.S. goods, there is a hidden side that they have not mentioned.

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