HeyJaredRachel's Notebook
Journalist Rachel Cohen Booth provides new reporting on housing, homelessness, child care, abortion rights, and more.
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On prospective grandparents (opens the original)
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On Friday a friend/former editor of mine flagged a new econ working paper out in the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and we both virtually groaned at how utterly off-putting the abstract was framed. You can read it here<div clas
Smartphone exits (opens the original)
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Today I have a piece making the case for why there should always be an accessible non-smartphone option available to do basic, ordinary things. This was not something we had to worry about 10 years ago, but for various reasons I look at, the trend toward needing a smartphone to do regular things like order at a restaurant, enter a sports game, or even access certain public benefits has massively accelerated over the last five years. This is not a good trend, but it is a reversible one. I think w
Divorce reform and Medicare for All (opens the original)
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I’ve been back at work now for a little under three weeks and thought I’d talk a bit about what I’ve done so far, and how the transition has been going. The first bi
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