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October 3, 2024

Protectionism is Failing and Wrongheaded: An Evaluation of the Post-2017 Shift toward Trade Wars and Industrial Policy

Abstract The Trump–Pence and Biden–Harris administrations enthusiastically embraced protectionism. Each administration explicitly argued for a break from the bipartisan consensus of recent decades that has been generally supportive of free…

September 23, 2024

Toward a Potential Grand Bargain for the Nation

The views expressed in this report are those of the individual authors who collectively constitute the Grand Bargain Committee, co-chaired by Michael R. Strain and Isabel V. Sawhill. This report…

September 10, 2024

America is Still Working

…Capital Project SCP Report No. 3-20, 2020, https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/2020/7/the-demise-of-the-happy-two-parent-home. [29] George A. Akerlof, Janet L. Yellen, and Michael L. Katz, “An Analysis of Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing in the United States,” Quarterly Journal…

May 6, 2024

Comments on the One Seattle Plan (Comp Plan)

…for BIPOC communities, and reducing displacement pressure that helps drive homelessness. 4) Some of the goals and strategies discussed in the Seattle Comp Plan introduce unneeded complexity which will constrain

March 21, 2024

Three Principles for Conservative Early-Childhood Policy

Key Points Early-childhood education policy should provide relief for working families by subsidizing and stabilizing lower-cost early-childhood education options. It should also keep children connected to their families, even though…

November 14, 2023

Forget the Economics of Grievance

…onerous regulatory regime than existed during the Obama presidency. Read the full report. Notes A version of this report was originally published as Michael R. Strain, “Forget the Economics of…

February 14, 2023

Brave New Technology

strain these social-emotional capacities further. Even now, noncognitive skill deficits are one of those things that we all see, but few have concrete policies and strategies for developing them. These…

December 9, 2022

“Automatic Stimulus”: How It Would Have Increased the Record Unemployment Benefits Paid During the Great Recession and Pandemic

…replaced by permanent automatic stimulus policies. Applying that perspective, a recent “modernization” proposal by senior Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Michael Bennet (D-CO) would permanently revive federal unemployment benefit expansions…