Recently, I committed to revive my dead blog as it's been a while since my last post. Despite all that's happened since my last post (graduating college, working my first full-time job post-graduation, reading numerous books, etc), I've struggled to decide what to post about first. So, in the name of at least getting started, which is said to be the hardest step, I've chosen to write about something easy: Some of my favorite original …
In the face of a global shortage for kidneys available for transplant, most countries around the world have stuck to their stringent prohibitions against buying or selling organs. Iran stands uniquely as the only country in the world to have what essentially amounts to a legal, but regulated, market for kidneys where patients in need of a transplant can pay sellers for a kidney “donation.” In this policy brief, we detail the history of Iran’s …
Below, I use four ethical frameworks I learned about in my Princeton "Ethics and Public Policy" course to answer the following question:
Should the US government substantially increase the number of poor economic migrants it admits, even if it risks imposing downward pressure on the wages of American citizens without a college degree?
Explain which of the following frameworks ought to guide US policymakers here and what decision it would support: (1) Carens’s Rawlsian liberalism; …
In 2010, amidst the backdrop of a nation grappling with widespread healthcare disparities, the United States took a bold step by enacting the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This landmark legislation aimed to revolutionize healthcare access for millions of Americans, many of whom had previously been underinsured due to prohibitive costs or lack of options. Central to the ACA’s mission was the expansion of Medicaid, the government-funded health insurance program for low-income individuals, which would …
A few weeks ago, after suffering from chills, coughing, a fever, and losing her sense of smell, a nurse I knew tested positive for the COVID-19, the new coronavirus at the center of the recent pandemic.
She works at a large hospital nearby, and likely contracted the disease after her direct exposure working with coronavirus patients. For a little over a week, she stayed home, self-isolating from the rest of her family …
Finished reading 'The Index Card' about a week ago, per recommendation of my high school econ teacher. Great book for an introductory overview of personal finance!
It really inspired me to start paying attention to my money. I've started recording all my expenses and money inflows. At the end of the year, I plan to look through my list and determine how big my emergency fund needs to be—and then I'll try setting up an …
Once, in English class, we were asked to write down what our dreams were. One of the dreams I wrote down was that I wanted to figure out how to run a charity organization so that it could be profitable—that is, to somehow make charity profitable for the donors. If this was possible, it would be revolutionary to the charity industry, boosting donor participation to incredible levels.
My classmates laughed at the idea, which was …
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