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The Policy Lessons from Minnesota’s Massive Welfare Fraud
December 23, 2025 | Matt Weidinger
Real Estate Red Flag: How Hidden Blue-State Policies are Pricing Out Homeowners
November 19, 2025 | Howard Husock
Childcare Regulation Limits Choice and Opportunity
October 23, 2025 | Vanessa Brown Calder
Childcare Regulation and Affordability
October 21, 2025 | Vanessa Brown Calder
Reliability of Government Data Often Requires Asterisks, a Hazard That Predates Liberal Gripes About Trump Manipulating Statistics
October 21, 2025 | Matt Weidinger
The Golden Age of Public Housing—and Why It Didn’t Last
September 25, 2025 | Howard Husock
Subsidized Housing and Upward Mobility
September 24, 2025 | Howard Husock
A Second Reconciliation Bill Should Focus On Reducing Deficits
September 23, 2025 | Matt Weidinger
An Analysis of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act’s Effect on Student Loans
July 16, 2025 | Preston Cooper
Public Housing and Rental Subsidies
June 24, 2025 | Howard Husock
Lingering Absence in Public Schools: Tracking Post-Pandemic Chronic Absenteeism into 2024
June 12, 2025 | Nat Malkus
America’s Housing Supply Problem: The Closing of the Suburban Frontier?
June 10, 2025 | Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko
Measuring the Value of Nondegree Credentials
June 5, 2025 | Mark Schneider et al
More Evidence of How Housing Regulation Is Bad for Housing
June 5, 2025 | James Pethokoukis
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