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Comment on Proposed Rule Establishing Flexibility for Implementation of Work Requirements and Term Limits in Federal Housing Assistance Programs
…Source: Husock, Howard, and Bruce D. Meyer. 2025. “Subsidized Housing and Upward Mobility.” National Affairs 67. Fall. Available at https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/subsidized-housing-and-upward-mobility; Author’s calculations Notes: Programs include public housing, tenant-based rental vouchers, and project-based rental…
Op-Ed
Chicago’s “Disappearing Middle Class” Can Be Found in Its Proliferating Upper Middle-Class Neighborhoods
…In Chicago It’s Almost Gone.” Both included maps by the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Nathalie P. Voorhees Center for Neighborhood and Community Improvement, which paint an alarming picture: The growth…
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How Policy and Demographics Are Reshaping SNAP: From Families with Children to Older Adults
…n.d.-a. “Figure HH-4: The Rise of Living Alone.” https://www.census.gov/content/dam/Census/library/visualizations/time-series/demo/families-and-households/hh-4.pdf. US Census Bureau. n.d.-b. Population and Housing Unit Estimates, 2000–10 National Intercensal Totals, 2010–20 National Intercensal Totals, and 2020–25 National Population Totals. https://www.census.gov/programs-surveys/popest.html….
COSM Commentary
Understanding the Recent Declines in SNAP Participation
…the nation’s largest food assistance program for low-income households and has grown substantially over the past 25 years, with participation rising from about 17 million people in 2000 to roughly…
Op-Ed
There Are Many Reasons to Cheer Up About the State of the Middle Class
This piece originally appeared at National Review Online and is reprinted here with permission. Statistics show that the middle class is healthier and more secure than ever before. This week, Michael…
Commentary
The More Things Change, Medicaid Edition
…was all there. Medicaid, the program Congress had created in 1965 to serve as the nation’s health care safety net for the poor, was being transformed into an open tap…
Op-ed
Compiling My Work on Work Incentives
…Poverty After Welfare Reform, Manhattan Institute (August 22, 2016) https://manhattan.institute/article/poverty-after-welfare-reform “Why the 1996 Welfare Reform Benefited Poor Children,” National Review (September 1, 2026) https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/09/welfare-reform-child-poverty-1996-law-poor-children/amp/ “Yes, the ’96 Welfare reform Helped Reduce Child…
Commentary
Assessing Duplicative Federal Benefit Programs and Preventing Abuse
…2021, https://www.aei.org/opportunity-social-mobility/turning-back-the-clock-on-welfare-reform/. [40] Howard Husock and Bruce D. Meyer, “Subsidized Housing and Upward Mobility,” National Affairs, Fall 2025, https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/subsidized-housing-and-upward-mobility. [41] Gilbert Crouse et al., Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors: 24th Report to Congress, US Department of…
Op-Ed
Congress Gave Families a Raise. Now Let Parents Decide How to Use It.
…keep working, whether full- or part-time. Others would stay home during their child’s first years, which three recent national surveys found most parents prefer. Those are fundamentally different choices, which a payment formula set…
Commentary
Time Limits and Work Requirements Would Improve Subsidized Housing Programs
…receive $1 million in total assistance. Stays of this duration are common: Nationwide, 59% of ongoing spells among non-disabled working-age adults in the voucher program are expected to last more…
Op-Ed
Don’t Tax the Public Housing Poor Like They’re Rich
…— part of the National Housing Act — only Congress can change it; there’s nothing HUD can do on its own. Those with experience administering public housing work requirements —…
Commentary
Summary and Analysis of the “Stop Unemployment Fraud Act”
…Senate Finance Committee. Those committees have jurisdiction over the nation’s unemployment insurance (UI) system, including temporary federal benefit programs created in response to recessions. The provisions of the bicameral legislation,…