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The Tinder-ization of the job market

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By Matt Darling
| The Argument Verified
Is AI going to take everyone’s jobs? A recent report went viral after claiming there were 55,000 AI-related layoffs in 2025. On the one hand, this is fairly silly. Fifty-five thousand layoffs is a very small number in a country with a 170 million-person labor force, where monthly layoffs regularly exceed 1.5 million. In fact, 2025 has had an unusually low layoff rate by historical standards, albeit higher than other recent years.
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Are Free Buses Safer? The Data Don’t Show What Mamdani Claims

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By Matt Darling
| City Journal Verified
Mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani has promised to make New York City cheaper—freezing the rent, creating city-run grocery stores to fuel competition, and making buses free. These are ambitious programs, though many people are skeptical. If elected mayor, Mamdani will have a chance to enact these plans and see if they work. But turning progressive ideas into functioning city policy is rarely simple.
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What can be learned from states that made good faith efforts with work requirements?

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By Matt Darling
| Substack
From Don: in recent months this blog has warned, repeatedly, what a disaster work requirements will be for access to Medicaid. Nevertheless, the policy has been adopted by Congress. In the future, we will feature more work providing insight into how states can reduce the negative effects of work requirements. To be clear, this is not the optimal solution, but states are obliged to prepare as best they can for this future.
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