Lower-income immigrant families might receive more in benefits than they pay in taxes. But that mathematical equilibrium is temporary, and an artifact of the way the tax-and-transfer system is structured to help lower-income families and to support families with kids. — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
Immigrant families pay taxes. They work. They start businesses. They spend money in their communities. They join native-born families in being economically productive, both paying money to the government and receiving benefits from the government. — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
The bunker business is just one instantiation, the grandest instantiation, of what you might think of as conspiracy capitalism. — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
It is a country that professes to care for babies. But in the United States, the infant death rate is twice as high as… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
Where Democrats have a real toehold to criticize Republicans is that families still feel very financially fragile. About 2 in 5 adults would struggle… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
So overall in the entire economy, the issue is not that health care costs are growing dramatically. The issue is that the burden placed… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
As a general point, the United States has an extreme budget commitment to prisons, guns, warplanes, armored vehicles, detention facilities, courts, jails, drones, and… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
Conspiracy theories themselves are big business, of course, selling books, videos, conferences, and all kinds of merch. Then there is the economy that promotes… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
The risk that people pose to wolfdogs is far greater, statistically, than the risk that wolfdogs pose to people. Many are bred in miserable,… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
Wolves are afraid of humans, whereas dogs are not. Wolves hunt game, whereas dogs scavenge human leftovers or eat what their human companions put… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
The workforce is getting Uberized. The gig economy is taking over the world. Independent-contractor jobs are the new normal. — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
For animals, for humans, for the planet: It makes sense to curb meat consumption, and that is something vegans and omnivores agree on. Roughly… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
The rise of populist movements and the shrinking of the middle class - with all the economic pain and political turbulence that comes with… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
The student-loan crisis has an underappreciated emotional valence too: The debt makes people miserable. In one survey, more than half of borrowers said that… — Annie Lowrey Copy Share Image
