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Since the COVID pandemic, official reports show strong job growth in America. However, jobs data released in mid-2024 led some financial analysts to argue that much of the increase was due to hiring by the federal government. If this is true, then the apparent strength of the American economy does not reflect actual business conditions. Rather, it is the result of federal government actions that artificially create the illusion of economic strength.

Since the end of the COVID pandemic in 2021, migrants have entered the United States in unprecedented numbers. Several well-publicized cases of violent crimes committed by recent migrants raise the question of whether the migration spike has led to overall higher crime rates in the communities where these individuals live. This brief explores this question.

This brief focuses on the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) efforts to increase the number of female and minority air traffic controllers and the potential impact the initiative may have had on air travel safety. The FAA’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiative is the subject of a lawsuit filed by individuals who claim they would have been hired if the FAA had not changed its hiring criteria. These individuals also claim that the FAA’s initiative made air travel less safe. Everything Policy’s analysis focuses primarily on the second claim: did emphasizing DEI compromise air safety?