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Bloomberg: The home insurance crisis could use a public assist
“To address soaring insurance premiums and coverage gaps in an age of worsening climate-fueled disasters, the Brookings Institution has proposed creating a fe…
Public natural catastrophe reinsurance: What other countries do
David Wessel, director of the Hutchins Center, summarizes new work by Adam Solomon (NYU) on lessons from foreign governments’ intervention in their insurance m…
The Washington Post: See which jobs are most threatened by AI and who may be able to adapt
“‘All the important questions about AI’s effects on the labor market are still unanswered,’ Jed Kolko, a senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for Internatio…
The New Yorker: Can AI be pro-worker?
“In a new report for the Brookings Institution titled 'Building pro-worker AI,' which Acemoglu and Johnson wrote with another noted MIT economist, David Autor,…
NPR: Across the US, changes to SNAP benefits are kicking in
“Many SNAP participants are working. They’re working in the low-wage labor market, which is super volatile, and there’s a lot of job turnover. ... SNAP is supp…
Axios: Tech industry ‘gripped’ by sci-fi vision of AI
“The tech sector is 'gripped' by an ideological vision of AI that's rooted in science fiction—but it doesn't have to be that way, three prominent economists wr…
The New York Times: Flexibility and rising costs are keeping mothers at work
“The share of women with children under 5 who are working or looking for work peaked at nearly 71 percent in September 2023 and continues to float above prepan…
The Wall Street Journal: Why have business leaders gone silent?
Former Treasury Secretary and Goldman Sachs co-senior partner Robert E. Rubin highlights the silence of the business community—along with that of other America…
