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June 30, 2025
America’s Six Million Home Shortage: Why California Is at the Epicenter
…analysis distributed the estimated six million missing homes across counties based on each area’s median price-to-income ratio—a proven proxy for housing affordability. By applying this method, the analysis produced a national shortage…
June 23, 2025
Boston’s Backward Housing Policy: More Demand Will Only Exacerbate the Supply Crisis
…homes annually, at a median price of around $735,000—roughly 30% below Boston’s new single-family home construction prices. Importantly, such a strategy would also promote filtering—the natural process by which newer,…
June 20, 2025
Senate Embraces “Do No Harm” for Higher Education
…than three years: The median earnings of working former students six years after entry must exceed the median earnings of working bachelor’s degree holders aged 25 to 34 who are…
June 12, 2025
The Senate’s Higher Education Reforms Are Strong (But Could Be Stronger)
…for federal student loans if their former students’ earnings are too low. For undergraduate programs, median earnings of former students four years after exit must exceed the earnings of a…
March 31, 2025
Reimagining Federal Education R&D: DARPA for Education
…but which has also advanced many civilian breakthroughs like the internet, GPS, advanced microprocessors, and Covid-19 vaccines. During the Biden administration, “DARPA envy” was widespread, and ARPA-like units were set…
February 4, 2025
The Family First Act Would Expand Net Income Tax Refunds to Higher Income Families
…or negative federal income tax liability. Married parents with two children could receive a net refund from the federal government until their income exceeds $94,000, well beyond the median US household income…
November 25, 2024
Don’t Write Off Workforce Pell Grants
…year after completion, the median student’s earnings must exceed $22,590 plus the price of tuition. It’s likely that many of the ineffective workforce education programs evaluated in the pilot would…
November 4, 2024
Again, Tariffs Didn’t Make American Manufacturing Great
…that America “in the 1890s was probably the wealthiest it ever was” because of its tariff system. First, per capita GDP is, conservatively, seven times higher today than in 1900. That Trumpian…
September 11, 2024
After Decades of Competitive Admissions, Getting into College Has Finally Become Easier
…roughly 1,400 public and private nonprofit colleges that grant mostly bachelor’s degrees or higher, the median institution reduced its admissions rate by six percentage points between 2002 and 2012. Admissions…
April 19, 2024
The New Deal’s Failed Kibbutz in the Desert
At the height of the New Deal, with the Social Security Act, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Civilian Conservation Corps already enacted, the Roosevelt Administration’s Farm Security Administration…