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February 25, 2026
On the Federal Deficit, Picking the Low-Hanging Fruit Won’t Be Enough
…called for defunding the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which liberals regularly derided as “killing Big Bird.” As Politico reported in 2010, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and Newt Gingrich all called…
February 2, 2026
Poverty and Dependency in the United States, 1939–2023
…the full income measures developed by Burkhauser et al. (2024) for subsequent years. From 1939–1963, poverty fell by 29 percentage points, with even larger declines for Black people and all…
November 26, 2025
How Not to Redefine Poverty
…a pre-tax measure, but spending depends on after-tax income. The latter has increased more than pre-tax income. The most comprehensive effort to address these issues is a recent paper by Richard Burkhauser,…
October 21, 2025
Reliability of Government Data Often Requires Asterisks, a Hazard That Predates Liberal Gripes About Trump Manipulating Statistics
…Republicans dubbed a “liberal wish list,” the Ways and Means Committee’s chairman, Congressman Richard Neal said in June 2020 that “more than 42 million are out of work.” That figure was apparently…
September 25, 2025
The Golden Age of Public Housing—and Why It Didn’t Last
…cut. The Pruitt-Igoe implosion is the perfect symbol of the end of the public housing golden age. It was specifically referenced by President Richard Nixon in 1973 when he announced…
September 8, 2025
A Hidden Explanation for the Wealth Gap on Racial Lines That Emerges in the Push to Promote Public Housing
…notably including the housing voucher program initiated in 1973 by Richard Nixon. The housing voucher was judged mainly as positive by comparison with the projects, already symbolized by the implosion…
June 24, 2025
Public Housing and Rental Subsidies
…7. Howard Husock, “How Government Fostered Housing Segregation,” review of The Color of Law, by Richard Rothstein, Barron’s, September 30, 2017, Manhattan Institute. 8. Quoted in Howard Husock, “The Inherent Flaws of…
June 24, 2025
Why Do Republicans Support the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit?
…by avoiding the pitfalls of direct government construction.” In other words, it’s better than straight public housing. But this has been the Republican approach since Richard Nixon halted new public…
June 16, 2025
The ‘Father Divide’ and What it Means for Our Kids
…likely to establish families where dad is absent. In summing up the report, Richard Reeves, the president of the American Institute for Boys and Men and co-author of the report, said, “Dads…
June 13, 2025
Good Fathers, Flourishing Kids: The Importance of Fatherhood in Virginia
Children in Virginia are more likely to flourish when their fathers are engaged and/or present. This is one of the conclusions from Good Fathers, Flourishing Kids: The Importance of Fatherhood in Virginia, a…