Jacob Lawhern

Director, Effective Discourse Partnerships, 2023 Fellow

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Jacob is currently a Sophomore at UT Austin (Economics major). His passions include all things Economics, particularly as it relates to housing development and healthcare policy. He is looking to pursue a PhD in Economics and hopes to materially improve the lives of the various communities he engages in.

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It’s The Subsidies, Stupid

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It’s The Subsidies, Stupid

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June 24, 2023

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A research paper that dives into the benefits of government subsidies for private insurance attainment, looking at where they've been implemented before and the widespread success that they have fostered. The paper does call for some more "radical" reforms, but it includes a plethora of stats to support them.

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