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January 21, 2025

President Trump’s USDA Should Fix Food Stamp Work Requirement Waivers

…during those times. Source: Richard V. Burkhauser, Kevin Corinth, Thomas O’Rourke, and Angela Rachidi, “Coverage, Counter-Cyclicality and Targeting of Work Requirement Waivers in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,” Working Paper…

January 17, 2025

Reforming Work Requirement Waivers in SNAP

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December 30, 2024

Coverage, Counter-cyclicality and Targeting of Work Requirement Waivers in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Abstract Non-disabled, working age adults without children are required to work 20 hours per week in order to maintain eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. However, states may waive…

December 10, 2024

Fighting in-work poverty: the minimum wage versus in-work benefits

Abstract We review evidence on the effectiveness of the minimum wage versus in-work benefit policies in reducing poverty in OECD countries. The most credible evidence suggests that raising the minimum…

November 14, 2024

The Rotting of the College Board

…rigged in favor of the well-to-do. In 2003, University of California President Richard Atkinson gave a public address discussing the trend among wealthier families to pay for test prep, suggesting…

October 23, 2024

The College Enrollment Plunge Is the Biden Administration’s Disaster

…the time, Richard Cordray, was a darling of progressive advocacy groups gunning for loan forgiveness—but he had no experience in financial aid administration. Now, the chickens have come home to roost. Hundreds…

October 3, 2024

The New “Old Girls Network” in the American Workplace

…to prosper in our service- and information-based economy, men without a college degree have faced declining job prospects and growing social and health risks. Richard Reeves, founder of the American Institute of Boys and Men…

September 30, 2024

Our Academic Productivity After the Council of Economic Advisers

Abstract Gordon Tullock wrote that government economists found capable of “firefighting” are assigned to do more of it, “with the result that the higher ranks of government economists aren’t able…

September 20, 2024

How Public Housing Fueled Boston’s Busing Riots

…housing. By contrast, as Richard Rothstein has pointed out in The Color of Law, federal housing policy favored white suburban homeownership via redlining and other discriminatory practices. In Boston, school officials…

September 10, 2024

America is Still Working

…using IPUMS microdata. (See Steven Ruggles, Sarah Flood, Matthew Sobek, Daniel Backman, Annie Chen, Grace Cooper, Stephanie Richards, Renae Rodgers, and Megan Schouweiler. IPUMS USA: Version 15.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN:…