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Blog Post
Refocusing the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation on Achieving Deep Cost Reductions
…early targets to explore: Bryan Dowd and Anthony T. LoSasso argue for allowing those accountable care organizations (ACOs) with proven cost-cutting records to offer to Medicare beneficiaries discounted cost-sharing, premium…
Commentary
Assessing Duplicative Federal Benefit Programs and Preventing Abuse
…to Strengthen the Social Contract and Save the Country’s Finances, ed. Paul Ryan and Angela Rachidi(American Enterprise Institute, 2022), https://www.americanrenewalbook.com/a-safety-net-for-the-future-overcoming-the-root-causes-of-poverty/. [39] Matt Weidinger, “Turning Back the Clock on Welfare Reform,” AEIdeas, August 23,…
Commentary
The Policy Lessons from Minnesota’s Massive Welfare Fraud
…had a staggering 36 percent improper payment rate. But the scandal-plagued Minnesota programs originated well before the pandemic. Ryan Thorpe and Christopher Rufo report the Feeding our Future program was…
Article
Has Marriage Fallen Because Young Adults Can’t Afford Homes?
…to high interest rates that Federal Reserve Board Chair Paul Volcker imposed to arrest runaway inflation. That rate hike made mortgages costlier and also induced a deep recession. Homeownership among…
Op-Ed
Can School Reform Be Bipartisan Again?
…play a bigger role, plus perhaps teacher organizations that splinter off from the teachers’ unions, like the one Ryan Walters now runs. Rick: You’ve been at this a long time. If you had…
Op-Ed
A Tax-Reform Alternative to Trump’s Tariffs
The Supreme Court will hear arguments next month about the legality of President Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs on nearly all imports to…
Op-Ed
Subsidized Housing and Upward Mobility
…Chicago and non-resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The authors thank Mandana Malgorzata Vakil and Hadar Zeevi for research assistance and Gabriel Rogow-Patt and Paula Worthington for comments….
Op-Ed
A Hidden Explanation for the Wealth Gap on Racial Lines That Emerges in the Push to Promote Public Housing
…to emerge. Put another way, citizens began to question the determination that the communities in which they lived were irredeemable slums In Pittsburgh, newspaper columnist Paul Jones, writing for the…
Report
In Pursuit: Marriage, Motherhood, And Women’s Well-Being
…of Positive Psychology 8 (2013): 505-516; Paul Bloom, The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning (Ecco, 2012); Op. Cit., S. Katherine Nelson, S. Kostadin Kushlev, et al….
Op-Ed
Are conservative women embracing the ‘Supermom’ ideal?
…Conservative Women Who Are ‘Having It All.’” The piece by Pamela Paul spotlighted conservative women who are defying the traditional ideal of stay-at-home motherhood, opting instead for a high-powered career…
Op-Ed
Did ‘China Shock’ Throw Millions of Americans Out of Work?
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed Monday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent claimed that “3.7 million Americans lost their jobs” due to the “China Shock”—the increased import competition occurring after China was granted membership…
Blog Post
In Opposing Last Month’s Continuing Resolution, Nearly All Democrats Voted to Shut Down Welfare Checks, Too
…Massie (R-KY) voting for it. In the Senate, all Republicans except Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) supported the legislation on passage, joined by Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) and Sen. Angus King…