Annie Lowrey

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Apple News Today · The hidden tax Americans pay constantly — and how we can avoid it · 26 Sep 2026 podcast

The amount of time, effort, emotional work, sometimes money that is put on the consumer, the citizen.

of categories, right?

Yes.

So this schematic comes from two amazing scholars, Don Moynihan and Pamela Heard.

And they're scholars of public administration.

And so there's learning costs.

What is out there?

What do I have to do?

There are the actual cost of getting something.

So the paperwork costs, right?

Of applying or going and standing in line to vote, that kind of thing.

There are sometimes redemption costs.

This comes from another scholar named Carolyn Barnes.

This is the work that you have to do to actually get the benefit once you have it or use the benefit once you have it.

something like that is, you know, for instance, we're here in New York.

If you have a housing voucher, you have to find a landlord who will accept it, which is an additional little bit of work and makes the voucher less useful to you.

And then there's psychological costs or health costs that come along with this.

How do you feel?

And then the American government itself, where you have this federal structure where the United States is actually made up of more than 90,000 component governments, all of which have their own like little budgets and rules and who knows what.

My favorite little factoid of this is just on the cash welfare program, TANF, it goes by like three dozen names in the

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