It didn’t come from some mythical story that “everyone bought a house at 25.” In 1980, 21.3% of households headed by someone under 25 were owner-occupied households. These were not young adults merely living in their parents’ owned homes, based on the 1980 American Housing Survey data reproduced by the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. • 21.3% of householders UNDER 25 already owned their home. • Among ages 25–34, 52.3% were homeowners. So roughly 1 in 5 householders under 25 owned, and once you entered the 25–34 bracket, more than half did. Source: U.S. Senate Committee on Finance, S. Hrg. 101-697, p. 89, Table 2. In 1980, 21.3% of householders under age 25 were homeowners; among ages 25–34, the rate was 52.3%.

.@WilliamBaude: "I opened up Claude Code yesterday morning, tuned to Fable 5.1, Max effort, and asked it to expand the previous day’s blog post into a law review article with no further input from me." open.substack.com/pub/divide…

Also - and they always do this - she is working a MINIMUM wage job, but he's using costs for an AVERAGE apartment. When you earn the minimum income, you get the minimum. Not the average. Roommates are a good solution. When I was just out of college, I had one. My first solo apt was EXTREMELY small.

This is a ridiculously—scandalously—easy test. Anyone who has passed a middle school American history test will easily get almost all of them.

Could you pass the US citizenship test? Apparently, I can but not that well. It's a random 20 questions from a larger pool. Some of them are hard. I'm not even sure which ones I got wrong. taketest.xyz/us-citizenship-…

It’s a matter of first principles that business owners should have the right to freely hire employees who agree to work for them.

"I even think that it’s really wrong for parents to ever try to push reading before 5," says Maryanne Wolf, director of the Center for Dyslexia, Diverse Learners and Social Justice at UCLA. (1/n)

Cornell just produced a massive new report on higher education noting that companies have a “jarring” skepticism of higher ed thanks to a new generation of degree holders who lack key skills like handling uncertainty, compromising, and absorbing feedback. Faculty also report that incoming students, despite four years of undergraduate education, are “underdeveloped” in these relational or interpersonal skills. This is a serious crises in higher education and the report calls for a greater need for conflict-resolution training. We need to do a better job training our students to deal with these issues. These are traditionally the skills students developed in higher education. I loved college because it challenged me, sparked debate, and required me to grapple with complexity. This should be an essential part of college--inside and outside the classroom. chronicle.com/article/compan…

There is something terrifying about politicians who don’t seem to understand that the private sector is private. Companies do not exist to carry out the government’s preferred labor policy.

Happy 35th birthday to Nirvana's Nevermind, the most influential album of the past half-century.

This post could have easily been written by Bernie Sanders

Why should the government have any say over who companies employ?

Counterpoint: Government actors telling private businesses what they can and can't do is BS.