From 2000 to 2016, the percentage of Americans dying of drug overdoses quadrupled, increasing essentially every year. Now some in the media want to say that the increases continued after President Trump took office. Although more policy changes are needed, the progress on slowing the epidemic since January 2017 is obvious and important. Since the 1990s, an opioid epidemic […]
Author Archives: Casey Mulligan
Casey B. Mulligan is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago. He served as chief economist for the White House Council of Economic Advisers from 2018 to 2019. He is the author of the book “You’re Hired! Untold Successes and Failures of a Populist President.”