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September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…Bureau of Economic Analysis National Income and Product Accounts Table 1.1.6 (http://www.bea.gov/national/nipaweb/Index.asp). Real GDP is divided by hours, from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Office of Productivity and Technology (“Total…
September 9, 2024
The Nanny State Is Not the Answer to Parents’ Challenges
…our children’s prospects with those of others, as he notes, keeping up with the Joneses is not a new or diagnosable condition. It is part of human nature. And the…
September 6, 2024
The Latest Chronic Absenteeism Numbers
…much into them. More telling will be the national average 2023–24 school year. Some researchers have provided estimates of the 2023–24 national average, but it is hard to predict just…
September 5, 2024
Hurt Pennsylvania’s Workers to Win Pennsylvania’s Votes?
…good-paying union jobs” and raise “serious questions” about the likelihood that the company would remain headquartered in Pittsburgh. The national-security argument here seems equally straightforward: Japan is one of the…
September 3, 2024
Event: New Census Data on American Families’ Economic Well-Being
…us for a lunchtime conversation on the new census data, where the nation’s leading experts will assess the economy’s performance and determine what it means for American families’ prosperity. Submit…
September 2, 2024
This Is How to Fix the Housing Crisis
…need to dust off our history books and remember how this country raised the legal alcohol drinking age. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 demanded states raise the minimum age…
August 29, 2024
The Distribution of Social Capital across Individuals and its Relationship to Income
…linkage and imputation across several nationally representative datasets, we produce a comprehensive measure of social capital at the individual level. We validate our measure by aggregating it to the state…
August 29, 2024
Kamala Harris Wants to Turn the Tax Code into a Mammoth ATM
…tax credits for lower-income households leading the way. That naturally doesn’t include the 150 bills this Congress has proposed creating new or expanded tax credits, or Harris’s 2020 proposal to send $2,000-per-month…
August 28, 2024
Race, Ethnicity, and Measurement Error
Abstract Large literatures have analyzed racial and ethnic disparities in economic outcomes and access to the safety net. For such analyses that rely on survey data, it is crucial that…
August 28, 2024
Some Context Behind JD Vance’s Child Tax Credit Comments
Recently, GOP Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance said on Face the Nation “We should expand the child tax credit… I’d love to see a child tax credit that’s $5,000 per…