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October 10, 2024
Do Liberal Arts Colleges Pay Off? What the Data Say
…median return on investment of $889,000, compared to $652,000 for students who study the same subject at other colleges—a gap of $236,000. Economics majors at liberal arts colleges outperform their…
October 8, 2024
House Committee on Ways and Means Hearing on Misuse of TANF Funds
…a Rowe Scholar in Poverty Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously I served for over two decades on the staff of the House Ways and Means Committee, including as…
June 18, 2024
Answering Key Questions About Unemployment Insurance Reforms
…system to better support American workers, businesses, and taxpayers. My name is Matt Weidinger, and I am a Rowe Scholar in poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously, I…
April 5, 2024
The US Is Failing Substance-Exposed Infants
…Testing, Social Work Assessment and Custody at 5 Hospitals,” Academic Pediatrics 23, no. 6 (August 2023): 1268–75, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36754165; and Sebastian Schoneich et al., “Incidence of Newborn Drug Testing and Variations by…
February 7, 2024
Child Tax Credit Bill Would Increase Marriage Penalties for Working Single Mothers
…SNAP benefit parameters that took effect starting October 1, 2023, and we assume shelter costs of $1,146 per month for a single parent without children (median gross rent for 1…
February 6, 2024
Research by a Top Biden Administration Economist Reinforces the Importance of Work Incentives in the Child Tax Credit and the Safety Net
…to quantify this sensitivity, and Bastian and others have unsuccessfully tried to argue that that is far too high. (In truth, the research of even several of these critics, Bastian…
January 31, 2024
Long COVID for Public Schools: Chronic Absenteeism Before and After the Pandemic
…students. In 2022, 16 percent of Asian students and 24 percent of white students were chronically absent, compared to 36 percent of Hispanic students and 39 percent of black students….
January 23, 2024
A Follow-Up on My Recent Testimony to the Joint Economic Committee on Policy Approaches to Increasing the Supply of Affordable Housing
…offers generous tax credits for builders that rent units to tenants earning below 60% of area median income. During the hearing’s Q&A, I did not have time to elaborate on…
January 21, 2024
Portland’s Encampment Kids
…on the steering wheel, my Hispanic Uber driver asked with exasperation, “What did they think was going to happen?” Portland can seem dystopian. A naked homeless man in a wheelchair…
January 18, 2024
Evidence Mounts That Pre-K Harms Kids
…and Democrats have argued that the strong positive results from the Perry Preschool Project and the Abecedarian Study prove that universal pre-k would significantly help children. That claim was always…