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October 30, 2024
A SNAP Reform Framework Focused on the Future
…new Congress will be renewing the Farm Bill. True to its name, the Farm Bill authorizes a wide range of programs to support farmers and ranchers nationwide. But it also…
October 30, 2024
Workforce Strategies for New Industrial Policies: Governors’ Emerging Solutions
New research from the Project on Workforce and the National Governors Association highlights how governors are leveraging new industrial policy opportunities to strengthen workforce development and meet labor market needs….
October 23, 2024
The College Enrollment Plunge Is the Biden Administration’s Disaster
The number of first-year students on America’s college campuses dropped five percent this fall, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center’s new enrollment estimates. The drop—which reverses last year’s four…
October 22, 2024
Poverty, Hardship, and Government Transfers
Abstract We examine how the well-being of those with few resources changed, amidst economic disruption and large, transitory government transfers. We find that in the years leading up to the…
October 21, 2024
US Tariffs Will Not Bring Back Jobs from China
…too dependent on cheap Chinese goods, the argument goes, and this threatens US economic and national security. But the Trump/Biden tariffs have not reduced US dependence on China; instead, many…
October 18, 2024
Harris and Trump Are Equally Silent on the Expanding US Debt
Donald Trump and Kamala Harris seem to agree that one of the nation’s most important challenges should remain unaddressed — a problem that has been slowly eroding the foundations of…
October 16, 2024
11 Ways the Federal Government Is Making It More Difficult to Access Career Pathways
…percent of the nation’s gross domestic product.4 Unfortunately, while spending on education and workforce development programs continues to increase, a steady stream of regulatory and sub-regulatory barriers enacted at the…
October 15, 2024
Lefty NYC Council Add-Ons to Mayor’s ‘City of Yes’ Would Worse Housing Crisis
…boroughs, it would encourage some tried-and true formulas for naturally affordable housing, such as small apartment buildings and housing units atop new storefront blocks. It would add some new breakthroughs as…
October 15, 2024
Why Should the US Wish to Be More Like China?
In my new paper for the Aspen Economic Strategy Group, I argue: The protectionism, trade wars, and industrial policies of the Trump and Biden administrations have not succeeded at meeting their…
October 11, 2024
It’s time to face up to our social poverty problem
…poverty. Cities across the country are engaged in pilots to provide a guaranteed basic income to residents. At the national level, Democrats and some Republicans in Congress have called for…