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October 11, 2024
HUD’s Housing Misfire: When Bureaucrats Know Better than Markets
…cross-subsidy. Here are a few examples of cities that received grants in FY 2023: Seattle received $5 million for its Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) program, which created hundreds of affordable…
October 2, 2024
AOC’s “Social Housing” Dead End
…allure of a socialist “paradise.” To call it soulless would overstate its allure. It has no cross-streets with small shops; instead, groceries must be sought in nearby malls. Nor is…
August 30, 2024
When It Comes to Declining Donations, There’s More to the Story
…Revenue Service data for 2018 to 2021 showed that the average share of total adjusted gross income devoted to itemized charitable giving declined by 28 percent, even though adjusted gross…
August 6, 2024
Trump’s Tax Law Diminished Incentives for Charitable Giving, But We Can Fix It
…increased by 11 percent from 2017 to 2021, the average share of total adjusted gross income devoted to itemized-charitable giving fell by 28 percent. Put another way, more income was available for charitable…
August 1, 2024
Two Outrageous Bills Kamala Harris Sponsored Would Crush Taxpayers
As a U.S. senator, Vice President Kamala Harris had a remarkably slim record of accomplishments, shepherding only a handful of minor resolutions across the finish line. But that’s far from…
June 18, 2024
Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility
…of families with children rose by 45% before — and by as much as 94% after — accounting for taxes and transfers. Moreover, according to the LIS Cross-National Data Center,…
April 21, 2024
The Real Bias at NPR: Story Selection
…from which to draw, a better NPR would have its ear to the ground across the country — searching out the small-town and big-city stories that would provide us the…
April 18, 2024
Put Growth Back on the Political Agenda
…crisis requires action. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office estimates potential gross domestic product growth of 1.8% over the coming decade, and somewhat lower after that. Those figures are roughly 1 percentage point…
March 8, 2024
Jason Kelce, Family Man
…men actually benefit from marriages or relationships anymore.” The second myth is that father-present homes are of no great importance to our kids. Harvard University’s Christina Cross in The New…
March 5, 2024
A Conservative Vision for Education Reform
…the Israeli military, how could this money be used to rebuild Palestine?” The founder of Woke Kindergarten is Akiea “Ki” Gross. Gross’s professional biography offers up pronouns (“they/them”) and touts Gross as…