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Commentary
Assessing Duplicative Federal Benefit Programs and Preventing Abuse
…16, 2024, https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-105833. [26] Matt Weidinger, Funding the Administration of Unemployment Benefits: Overview and Reforms to Improve Efficiency and Program Integrity, American Enterprise Institute, January 21, 2026, https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/funding-the-administration-of-unemployment-benefits-overview-and-reforms-to-improve-efficiency-and-program-integrity/. [27] Matt Weidinger and Amy Simon, Pandemic Unemployment…
Commentary
Summary and Analysis of the “Stop Unemployment Fraud Act”
…heavily-defrauded federal PUA program lacked an identity verification requirement for those claiming benefits. As former Department of Labor official Amy Simon and I noted in a January 2024 report, Key…
Blog Post
The Mirage of “Pro-Worker AI” via Public Policy
…businesses and entrepreneurs—not by a policy plan designed in Washington. That’s a core point in a recent critique by economist Joshua Gans of a proposal from Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson to…
Blog Post
Apocalypse Not
…may recall, claimed that $140,000 is the new poverty line and the “cost of existing.”) His figures come from the Living Wage Calculator (LWC), a project of Amy Glasmeier, a professor of…
Report
In Pursuit: Marriage, Motherhood, And Women’s Well-Being
…Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents—and What They Mean for America’s Future, 2nd edition (Atria Books, 2025). 2 Jennifer Glass, Robin W. Simon, & Matthew A. Andersson, “Parenthood…
Op-Ed
Musk’s High-Tech Polygamy Is a Dead End
Elon Musk told a conference in Saudi Arabia last year that his listeners “should view the birthrate as the single biggest problem [we] need to solve. If you don’t make new humans,…
Report
Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 2025
What is the American dream? It is a “better, richer, and happier life for all our citizens of every rank,” in the words of James Truslow Adams, the historian who…
Report
For Better: Four Proven Ways To A Strong And Stable Marriage
…leftwing journalists like Amy Shearn, who tells us in The New York Times that “Married motherhood in America… is a game no one wins,” and rightwing online influencers like Andrew Tate, who claim…
Report
For the Sake of the Kids: Strengthening Families in the Lone Star State
The family is the fundamental unit of society. As Pope Saint John Paul II so eloquently stated, “as the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole…
Report
America is Still Working
…1947 through 1957, I use estimates from Simona E. Cociuba, Edward C. Prescott, and Alexander Ueberfeldt, “US Hours at Work,” Economics Letters 169, 87-90 (2018), data file updated October 2021,…
Testimony
Answering Key Questions About Unemployment Insurance Reforms
…event of a layoff. A January 2024 report I coauthored with Amy Simon breaks down the respective federal and state roles: “The federal role in the UI program includes providing…
Blog Post
New “Scorecard” Report Promotes Better Use of Data to Prevent Unemployment Fraud
Criminals inflicted unprecedented fraud on taxpayer benefits during the pandemic, and some of the most abused programs were those that provided temporary federal unemployment benefits. As we documented in a…