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October 21, 2024
US Tariffs Will Not Bring Back Jobs from China
…sector. Moreover, this focus on the effects of Chinese imports fails to account for the fact that open trade also increases exports. Studying the 1999-2011 period, economists Robert C. Feenstra,…
October 14, 2024
Another Terrible Idea: Abolishing Child Welfare
The only thing surprising about Dorothy Roberts winning a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” earlier this month is that it took the organization so long to do it. Roberts, a law…
October 11, 2024
Let’s Open the Black Box of Selective College Admissions
…Latino applicants? Is Yale using “holistic admissions” to circumvent the law and micro-manage the racial makeup of the student body? Are some selective colleges using Chief Justice Roberts’s “essay loophole”…
October 11, 2024
It’s time to face up to our social poverty problem
…a problem you can’t measure. That’s not to say we know nothing about certain aspects of our worsening social poverty problem. Robert Putnam documented the decline of clubs and civic institutions, the Joint…
October 9, 2024
Learning the Right Lessons from the “China Shock”
…important understanding of the actual content of the studies themselves.) The economists Robert C. Feenstra, Hong Ma, and Yuan Xu attempt to estimate the effects of trade openness on both…
October 9, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Main Priority Is Expanding Welfare, Not Strengthening the Middle Class
…family.” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., parodied those answers at a recent rally in Michigan: “All you have to know is seven words, and you never have to admit to doing…
September 20, 2024
Don’t Believe the Doomsayers. The American Dream Is Still In Reach for Young People
…a particular community have for young people growing up there. Robert Doar, president of the American Enterprise Institute, highlighted one of the study’s implications on crafting social welfare policy: “There is a…
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…to 2022 are from files offered by the Minnesota Population Center at the University of Minnesota. (See Sarah Flood, Miriam King, Renae Rodgers, Steven Ruggles, J. Robert Warren, Daniel Backman,…
June 20, 2024
The War on Poverty at 60: Lessons to Inform the Future
…to better support low-wage workers. Wendell Primus of the Brookings Institution focused on ways to reduce elderly poverty, including reforms to the Supplemental Security Income program. The Heritage Foundation’s Robert…
June 17, 2024
Child Support Policy: Areas of Emerging Agreement and Ongoing Debate
The Child Support Enforcement (CSE) system is important in providing resources to children who live apart from one of their parents. This is especially true in poor households. In this…