Friday assorted links
The article discusses various topics including the high cost of child care in the U.S. and rising unemployment rates among recent graduates. It also touches on the impact of remote work on young workers and includes links to related content. Additionally, it references a column on university ideals and the history of social science funding.
- ▪Child care costs in the U.S. are notably high.
- ▪Recent graduates with bachelor's degrees are experiencing higher unemployment rates than the overall workforce.
- ▪Remote work may negatively affect young workers more than AI.
2 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 20 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ Friday’s Brotherhood Playoff News & Links — Yahoo Sports
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| Original publisher | Marginal Revolution |
| Canonical URL | https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/05/friday-assorted-links-573.html?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=friday-assorted-links-573 |
| Publication time | Fri, 22 May 2026 15:30:19 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-05-22T15:37:02.420Z |
| Last seen | 2026-05-22T15:37:02.420Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | -wDv0pAq-kRt · 4 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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WeSearch handling by dimension
| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
Basis: Derived from the published RSS/Atom feed. Contact: [email protected]. Reviewed: 2026-07-24.
Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Friday assorted links by Tyler Cowen May 22, 2026 at 11:30 am 1. One reason why child care is so expensive in the U.S. 2. “For the first time in decades, new and recent graduates with at least a bachelor’s degree have consistently higher unemployment rates than the overall American workforce, according to data on 22-to-27-year-olds compiled by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.” Link here. 3. Redux of my 2021 Bloomberg column on the ideal university. 4. 15-minute weird Brazilian album. 5. History of social science funding at the NSF. 6. Furman and Laibson on Harvard grade inflation (NYT). 7. Who gets laid off first? The measurers? 8. Work from home may be the problem for young workers, not AI.
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Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Marginal Revolution.