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November 15, 2024
Calibration: Making AI a Partner at Work
…levels—plays a crucial role in maximizing AI’s potential. Workers who can assess their skills and know when to rely on AI saw the greatest productivity gains. In their study involving…
November 14, 2024
Florida, the Forgotten Education-Reform Star
…for serving students and maximizing taxpayer dollars.” “In a moment when education reform has come up against new and significant hurdles,” they conclude, “Florida’s results are promising. We should be…
November 1, 2024
Latest Student Loan Cancellation Proposal Could Be Biggest Yet
…eligible for loan cancellation under the latest scheme, and much is left to the subjective determination of bureaucrats at the Education Department (ED). If those bureaucrats adopt a maximalist definition…
October 31, 2024
The Republican Marriage Advantage: Partisanship, Marriage, And Family Stability In The Trump Era
…during COVID, radical race and gender theories injected into schools and sports, criminal justice policies that led crime and disorder to spike in many cities, or maximal support for abortion rights, many local, state, and federal Democratic leaders—not to…
October 18, 2024
Pro-Marriage Conservatives Should Reject a Per-Child Phase-In of the Child Tax Credit
…Credit in four ways. First, they would increase the maximum Child Tax Credit from $2,000 to $3,000, a costly increase. A better idea would be to immediately increase the maximum…
September 24, 2024
Household Food Insecurity Rises Again – Inflation, especially for households ineligible for safety net programs, to blame
…combined with adjustments to SNAP benefits to account for inflation, the maximum SNAP benefit increased in nominal terms by an astonishing 46.3 percent from 2019 to 2023. Consistent with this…
September 19, 2024
Government benefit programs already do a lot to help low income families
…work and have no tax liability do not benefit at all from the CTC. Proposals to increase the generosity of the CTC would generally increase the maximum amount and allow…
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…likely reduced men’s wages. With more men single and childless, and for longer, they face less pressure to be breadwinners. That may affect the weight they put on maximizing their…
August 24, 2024
Harris’s Child Tax Credit Proposal Could Backfire, Perpetuating Poverty
…increased dollar amounts have attracted most of the attention, a key motivation for these proposals is to ensure working families with low incomes receive the maximum credit. Working families who…
August 15, 2024
Women Want More Children Than They’re Having. America Can Do More to Help
…of us. Making America more supportive of marriage and motherhood could not be more important if we aim to maximize the odds — for women who are open to having…