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April 15, 2025
Utah Hands Parents the Keys to the App Store
…trusted turned out to be little more than window dressing. Stories like this are heartbreaking, and all too common. As parents and policymakers, we can’t stand by while a digital…
March 17, 2025
How State Policymakers Can Save the Nuclear Family
…falling prospects of family life across the country, state policymakers need to take three steps. First, they should promote marriage (one of the biggest predictors of family formation) in public…
January 22, 2025
How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target
…recognizing that some policy shifts that increase output might adversely affect other areas of social interest (such as the distribution of income) or even national security, policymakers should focus squarely…
January 7, 2025
Tax Policy Should Prioritize Shoring Up the Family
…have kids and rely on a sole breadwinner were thwarted by objections that a child allowance would also promote single-parent families in which no one worked. Policymakers seeking to use…
December 20, 2024
Fixing Inflation, Right-Sizing the Federal Government
…(GDP)—a level not seen since 1958. When the 119th Congress and the second presidency of Donald Trump begin next month, policymakers will face a much more daunting fiscal crisis. Federal…
December 17, 2024
Industrial Policy and Deficits: Dark Clouds for Democratic Capitalism
…who wants a job can get a job. The unemployment rate remains very low — well under the rate at which most economists and Federal Reserve policymakers believe is sustainable…
December 5, 2024
Inflation Reduction Act Offers a General Lesson against Industrial Policy
…absolutely raid it for revenue to reduce business taxes without increasing the budget deficit. If that happens, policy-makers should relearn a valuable lesson: Partisan industrial policy faces many obstacles to…
November 19, 2024
A Trump Boom?
…from 2017 to expire, and it could fully eliminate certain itemized deductions, including those for mortgage interest and state and local tax payments. Finally, US lawmakers can pursue more fundamental…
November 15, 2024
JD Vance is Right: Reduce the Power of Big Foundations to Help Charity
…an extended deduction will or won’t increase giving. Lawmakers, instead, worry about the revenue loss to the IRS that would result. Indeed, the CARES Act incentive, now expired, has been…
October 21, 2024
US Tariffs Will Not Bring Back Jobs from China
…response. Worse, the protectionism of the Trump-Pence and Biden-Harris administrations has visibly hurt workers and consumers. Part of the reason policymakers have taken such a wrong turn is that the…