Could probably have gone in financial too, but makes sense here as well…
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/21/housing-home-ownership-minneapolis
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Here’s the paper. It has a chart that shows the categories of people who are non-owners. As expected, most of the adjustment is adult children.
I suppose that the American Community Survey has enough information to show housing situation by age. That could be interesting, especially if you could access earlier surveys.
i guess I’ll have to read the paper to see this - article says:
Housing is the largest source of wealth for many Americans, and the new measure finds that barely half of adults have access to that piggy bank.
but if younger people are renting but saving/investing in other areas ahead of what young people have historically done - then they just have a different piggy bank.
Now, I think it is the worst - not buying, not able to save. but that’s just a guess.
Seems so.
The “deal” favours the US more than Carney indicated. This bridge will be a financial loser in any event.
In Carney’s defence, it is hard to “negotiate” with Trump who doesn’t respect existing deals and then puts a gun to your head. However I think this “deal” will still hurt Carney politically as it is a capitulation.
This looks like asset confiscation by the Trump Administration. If another country did this to a US asset, Trump would called their leaders Communists.
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Maybe the obvious studies thread, but a bit too political: Leading voices who wanted to protect women’s sports from single digit numbers of trans women now want to cut down on women’s sports in general.
About a week after its allies won a Supreme Court ruling allowing states to ban transgender girls from girls’ school athletics, a leading conservative group that has campaigned for seven years to “protect women’s sports” is singing a very different tune. On July 8, the Heritage Foundation—the right-wing think tank widely known for sponsoring Project 2025—published a report calling for the rollback of the very landmark federal protections for women’s sports that have driven their explosion in popularity over the last five decades.
In his paper for the Heritage Foundation, Yenor argues that schools should be allowed to “accommodate sex differences” by replacing competitive women’s sports opportunities with “cheerleading, dance, yoga, hiking clubs, recreational intramurals, and other athletic opportunities more aligned with average female interests and tendencies.” High-intensity exercise, he notes, “increases infertility.” (Women who exercise “too much” may indeed have a harder time getting pregnant, according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists—but some research suggests those effects are mitigated as long as they eat enough. Anyway, it’s not altogether clear that getting pregnant is a priority for the school-age athletes Yenor is writing about.)
Meanwhile, Yenor advocates expanding men’s athletics: “Restoring a healthier balance involves protecting and even expanding men’s sports while allowing natural variation in program offering.”
I’m shocked, shocked! that the anti-trans machine also wants women to be restricted to traditional feminine roles and increase funding for men-only activities.
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I’m not sure what the current rules are. While not favoring any reduction in women’s sports funding and agreeing for the need for some highly competitive sports, it seems to me that there should be appropriate funding at all levels, not just the highly competitive ones.
This made my day.
“Iowa’s farmers shouldn’t face extreme taxes just to pass down their life’s work. Congresswoman Ashley Hinson is fighting to eliminate the Death Tax.”
This is from a mailing I got today. I also saw an ad on TV and another ad on YouTube with the same theme.
The 2026 estate tax exclusion is $15 million for a single person. A couple can stack their exclusions to get $30 million. Even at $15,000 an acre, that is a 2,000 acre farm. And, it is being passed down with no debt. (The estate tax is on net worth, not gross assets) That seems like a pretty big inheritance to me.
I suppose somebody thinks this is a winning political issue. Let’s completely eliminate the estate tax because there might be one Iowa farm family that would have to pay a small percent of their total estate. Are real farmers ignorant regarding the exclusion? Do city people have a knee jerk reaction against DEATH TAXES?
The mailing came from “One Nation”, not the Hinson campaign. Maybe that is relevant somehow.
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Canada will be erecting statues of Trump in a few years? Entertaining article.