2026-02-27
“ It is simply remarkable how robust public support for skilled immigration is. ” Alexander Kustov takes a look at research on the US and abroad, and points out that despite all the rhetoric, support for skilled immigrat…
One exception to the generalized support for skilled immigration, however, is support for a specific visa, the H-1B, among US tech workers (see the previous link for some discussion). A recent analysis by George Borjas a…
How much do permitting burdens raise the price of housing? This is a big question in our housing work, and it can be hard to measure the exact contribution of zoning applications, historical preservation review, and othe…
Tokyo is the world’s largest city, with 38 million people sharing one agglomerated labor market. Despite high land prices, Tokyo’s structure rents are remarkably affordable by global megacity standards ; they allow high …
Sometimes a pro-housing reform’s most articulate communicator is that reform’s biggest opponent. In a remarkable video , NYC Councilmember Vicky Paladino describes how New York’s pro-housing ballot measures have ended th…
On the trend of surprising public opinions, solar is remarkably popular among Trump voters, according to two MAGA-aligned polls released this month. The first, a survey run by Trump’s head campaign pollster, found 51% of…
There was a good back-and-forth on NIH funding in the Good Science Project last week. Aishwarya Khanduja and Stuart Buck first made the case that science funders would benefit from adopting some VC-style practices, then …
STAT reports on a growing number of state-level science funding proposals. Massachusetts’ governor has proposed a $400 million DRIVE initiative, a coalition of medical schools and researchers is pushing New York to creat…
The rise and fall of DOGE was an interesting state capacity story to me on a number of dimensions: DOGE cuts threatened to undermine state capacity in a number of ways; it was pitched as a way to bring in outside tech ex…