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How to Make Daycare, Healthcare, and Housing Cheaper: An Abundance Playbook
A running list of state and local rules that raise prices on the biggest line items in a family budget, and what to do about them.
Feb 24
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Abi Olvera
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11 Fixable Things that Make Life Harder for the Elderly, the Sick, and the Poor
Making it cheaper to be old, sick, or fragile in America. An abundance playbook.
Mar 18
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Abi Olvera
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America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan—but our zoning laws make them illegal
Zoning and food safety laws add up to outlaw tiny restaurants operated by one or two staff.
Sep 10, 2025
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How Working-Class People Talk About Uber Is Not How the Media Covers It
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Cars often keep people poor. Waymo could help.
May 6
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11 Fixable Things that Make Life Harder for the Elderly, the Sick, and the Poor
Mar 18
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Abi Olvera
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America could have $4 lunch bowls like Japan—but our zoning laws make them illegal
Sep 10, 2025
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Abi Olvera
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Effective Altruism focused on bednets while a malaria vaccine was stuck for 35 years. The case for Abundance.
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How to cut suicide rates, healthcare costs, crime, and prices. The gatekeeping problem in 30% of US jobs.
May 20
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How to cut suicide rates, healthcare costs, crime, and prices. The gatekeeping problem in 30% of US jobs.
The rules about who is legally allowed to do which jobs are one of the most consequential policy levers most people have never heard of.
May 20
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Abi Olvera
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How to Make Daycare, Healthcare, and Housing Cheaper: An Abundance Playbook
A running list of state and local rules that raise prices on the biggest line items in a family budget, and what to do about them.
Feb 24
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Abi Olvera
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The Boring Reason We Don't Have $7 Rideshares
Rideshare rules written for a skeptical era are now a barrier to the affordable transportation people actually depend on.
Dec 19, 2025
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Abi Olvera
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Make Life Better for Poor People
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Cars often keep people poor. Waymo could help.
The poorest fifth of American families spend 38% of their income on a car. The breakdowns and road deaths that fall hardest on them are just the cost of…
May 6
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Low-wage work isn't a job. It's a whole world with its own logic and norms.
I spent six years in low wage work. Media and policy debates tend to flatten something that's actually quite complex. Low wage work is a system.
Mar 9
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Colleges Need Low-Income Students. The Students Don't Know.
Our information ecosystems aren't great at providing life-changing information. I stumbled on a list of full-ride programs at 18 and it changed my life…
Feb 2
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Abi Olvera
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Protecting Democracy
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