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New York City Is a Hot Spot
for Illegal Medicaid Enrollment |
| Brian Blase | The New York Post |
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| As a result of ObamaCare's Medicaid expansion, many states stopped properly assessing whether applicants are eligible before they enroll. An estimated 337,000 to 455,000 working-age New York state residents with income above the allowed limit are improperly enrolled in Medicaid. Nearly half of improper enrollment is in New York City, where a few neighborhoods have among the highest percentage of improper enrollees anywhere in the country. What can New York do about this issue? |
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| The Struggle Between State and Society |
| Daron Acemoglu and Tyler Cowen | Conversations with Tyler |
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| Daron Acemoglu is a professor of economics at MIT and, by some measures, the number-one most widely cited economist in the whole world. He joined Tyler to discuss drivers of economic growth, the economic causes and effects of democratization, how Germanic tribes introduced “bottom-up politics” to the Roman empire, the institutional reasons that China’s state capacity and control has increased with its wealth, his latest book on how institutions help strike the balance of power in the constant struggle between state and society, and
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Two Years Later, Highly-Touted Foxconn
Subsidies Look More Dubious Than Ever |
| Michael Farren and Matthew Mitchell | The Chicago Tribune |
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| It has been two years since the Foxconn Corporation signed a controversial contract to build a manufacturing facility in Wisconsin in exchange for $3.6 billion in state subsidies. While initial studies touted by Foxconn and its subsidizers claimed benefits to the state's economy, more-realistic calculations suggest that the deal could reduce Wisconsin's long-run economic growth. This is a case study for understanding why subsidies fail to deliver the economic benefits of which they brag. |
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