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January 21, 2025
…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
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December 30, 2024
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
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
…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 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
…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
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
…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
…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:…