Opinion

Fort Wayne, my hometown, has a telephone service that residents can use to ask questions, request city services or report situations which require attention from city departments. I’ve never used this service but I have a friend who contacts the 311 folks daily.

Fort Wayne Journal Gazette

It has been two and a half years since the COVID pandemic pushed the United States into recession. The national economy remains burdened by the pandemic, particularly in labor markets. While the unemployment rate is low, levels of total employment and labor force participation have failed to return to pre-COVID levels. New data is beginning to offer a better understanding of why that is the case.

I recently wrote about the disturbing and dangerous polarization among Americans. I noted that hyper-partisanship, a geographic divide creating opposing homogenous communities and groupthink, ideologues and race were major factors creating our polarization. Yet I also wrote we Americans agree on far more than on which we disagree.

(Jeffersonville & New Albany) News and Tribune

Two pictures of Indiana.

We are the United States yet we are extremely polarized. I emphasize united because, in fact, we Americans agree on far more than on which we disagree. A Brown University study revealed that America is more polarized than any other democracy in the world.

New York Daily News

To the Editor:

There is precious little to like in President Biden’s announcement of student loan forgiveness. Indeed, the most charitable thing that could be said is that it could’ve been worse. It could’ve been more inflationary, a bigger addition to our debt, more distortionary in markets and less equitable. That is about all the faint praise it deserves.