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July 24, 2024

Housing and the American Worker

As the American Worker Project analysis shows, real wages have increased over time. Real wages are nominal wages corrected for changes in the price level, and a natural approach to understanding the…

July 23, 2024

How the 2017 Tax Law Made Itemized Charitable Giving a Luxury Good

…report uses national- and state-level IRS data from before and after the TCJA to review the combined impact on charitable giving of three policy changes: the increase in the standard…

July 17, 2024

Coming Together on Chronic Absenteeism: Schools’ Top Priority This Year

…Opening Remarks: Nat Malkus, Deputy Director, Education Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute 4:05 p.m. Panel I Panelists: Hedy Chang, Founder, Attendance Works Denise Forte, President, Education Trust Moderator: Nat Malkus,…

July 17, 2024

Key Takeaways from a New Report on Potential Unemployment Insurance Reforms

Yesterday, the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) released the final report of its Unemployment Insurance (UI) Task Force, of which I am a member. The task force was created…

July 15, 2024

It Is Time to Set Goals for Cutting Chronic Absenteeism

…threat that elevated chronic absenteeism becomes a new normal in the nation’s schools. That’s why I am coming together with Denise Forte, CEO of the Education Trust, and Hedy Chang,…

July 11, 2024

Exploring Trends in Food Bank Use

…food has changed for all US households over the past several years, we rely on two nationally representative surveys conducted by the US Census Bureau. The first is the Household…

June 27, 2024

New Legal Roadblocks for Biden’s Student Loan Forgiveness Crusade

…scheduled to begin on the first of July. The court decisions were the first step in a legal process that may ultimately end up at the Supreme Court. The nation’s…

June 26, 2024

Reducing Racial Disparities in Foster Care Might Endanger Black Children

…The only racial or ethnic group currently subject to different treatment is Native children under the Indian Child Welfare Act, which (similar to the Minnesota law) requires different measures for…

June 23, 2024

Is Systemic Racism Responsible for the Increase in Child Mortality Rates?

Native American communities, meanwhile, have long suffered from higher levels of violence and above-average rates of suicide. The isolation and sense of hopelessness in Native American territories is palpable —…

June 20, 2024

The War on Poverty at 60: Lessons to Inform the Future

…panel examined poverty measurement. Panelists agreed that the official poverty measure is outdated and should no longer be used by government agencies. David Johnson from the National Academies of Sciences,…