Mark Weisbrot - Dollars & Sense

The Underestimated “Price of Parenting”

Even a low-ball estimate of the cost of time shows just how misleading an estimate based only on money expenditures really is.

Nancy Folbre Sep 9, 2025

September/October 2025

Mamdani Needs to Catch the Value Capture Bus

New York Democratic mayoral nominee Zohran Mamdani has drawn both praise and sneers for his free bus proposal. As detailed

Polly Cleveland Sep 7, 2025

Left Hook Economics

More Babies or Better Care for Newborns?

Most so-called pronatalist policies seriously underestimate the costs and risks of raising children in today’s economic environment.

Nancy Folbre Sep 2, 2025

Mark Weisbrot is Research Director at the Preamble Center for Public Policy, Washington, DC, and author of "Unequal Sacrifice: The Impact of Changes Proposed by the Advisory Council on Social Security

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Issue 210: March/April 1997

How Not to Fix Social Security

Social Security has been in the front pages lately, with the release of the Social Security Advisory Council's

Mark Weisbrot Mar 1, 1997