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September 4, 2024
…buyers typically make a median down payment of around $10,500, or 3 percent of the home price. We estimate that even without the Harris proposal, 3 million of its recipients…
September 2, 2024
…while overall inflation is dropping. The National Association of Realtors reports that the median sale price for an existing single-family home was $422,000 in the second quarter of 2024. One-half…
July 14, 2024
…kids who are in the foster care system. Because you need a guardian to co-sign accounts for anyone under 18, foster kids are often left out. NorthCountry Credit Union in…
June 18, 2024
…education. In the early 1900s, progressives sought to bureaucratize K-12 into what historian David Tyack termed “the one best system.” In the 1920s, Oregon progressives (along with the anti-Catholic Ku…
June 18, 2024
…the one before it, that doesn’t seem to be the case. As they approach and pass age 40, Millennial men and women have higher median hourly wages than any previous…
May 24, 2024
…2023. West Coast cities have witnessed an especially sharp and concentrated increase in unsheltered homelessness, leading some observers to liken the current situation to a public health and humanitarian crisis….
December 18, 2023
…— six years after the financial crisis — for the median inflation-adjusted wages to return to its level in 2007 level. For six years, over half of workers lost ground. It is…
November 11, 2023
…found that Black children “were killed by family members at about seven times the rate for white and Asian children and three times the rate for Hispanic children.” But no,…
October 31, 2023
…difference. They could adopt curriculums that emphasize the “success sequence,” as does the Vertex Partnership Academies network of charter schools founded by my American Enterprise Institute colleague, Ian Rowe. The success sequence…
October 27, 2023
…steady growth and low unemployment, but also of growth that was more widely shared than in much of the recent past — with the strongest improvement in median incomes since the 1990s, wage…