A health-care mandate for education
Over the next week I’ll be writing a few entries about health care. Today, it’s the benefit of an individual mandate for college completion. The individual mandate is the package deal that goes with universal coverage, to get healthy people into the insured pool, and it’s also important to help college students finish. Every year, […]
Kristof and the public purpose of feel-good years
Charlie Barone is right: Nicholas Kristof’s column yesterday comparing TFA and the Peace Corps shows the practical limits of TFA (as well as Kristof’s ignorance about VISTA, but that’s a different story). There’s something important about consistently reminding reporters and other naive folks that TFA is not scalable. Regardless of what you think of it, […]