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Welfare Reform and Its Discontents
…are from Lauren M. Rossen et al., Updated Methodology to Estimate Overall and Unintended Pregnancy Rates in the United States, 2023, Vital and Health Statistics, Series 2, no. 201, https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/series/sr_02/sr02-201.pdf. Pregnancy rates for…
Report
Comment on CMS-2454-IFC: Clarifying “Household” for the SNAP Exclusion from the Medicaid Community Engagement Requirement
…Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI) is at least $580, even though MAGI includes income sources aside from earnings such as Unemployment Insurance. But because earnings represent the predominant source of…
Op-Ed
Free-Market Forces Behind Fishtown’s Revival
…and a once-struggling working-class neighborhood finding new life (“‘New Fish’ and ‘Old Fish’ Revive an Iconic Section of Philly’,” Cross Country, June 6). But the larger lesson lies in how…
Blog Post
Refocusing the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation on Achieving Deep Cost Reductions
…equal to 1.7 percent of gross domestic product (GDP). The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projects it will be 6.3 percent of GDP in 2026 and 7.3 percent in 2036. The added cost…
Commentary
Summary and Analysis of the “Stop Unemployment Fraud Act”
…at least $191 billion in losses to improper unemployment benefit payments, based on an estimated 21.5 percent improper payment rate across all programs. However, that February 2023 estimate by the…
Op-Ed
Everything You Thought About the US Labor Market Is Wrong
…at the time of this writing is expected by the Atlanta Fed to grow at 3.7 per cent in the fourth quarter. Growth in real consumer spending and gross fixed…
Testimony
Congressional Testimony: Unlocking Capital to Save the American Dream
…loan. This is feasible by combining the seller’s savings on capital gains taxes ($18,000 gross and $14,000 net to the IRS), and sales commission and sale preparation expenses ($18,000 and…
Commentary
The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit Should Not Subsidize Stay-at-Home Parents
…Difference Gross earnings Primary earner $100,000 $100,000 $0 Secondary earner $0 $20,000 $20,000 Total $100,000 $120,000 $20,000 Childcare cost $0 $20,000 $20,000 Net earnings $100,000 $100,000 $0…
Article
President Trump and Institutional Investors in Single-Family Rentals
…strong economic growth. If gross domestic product were to grow at 3-4% and mortgage rates drop from 6.2% to say 4.5%, the result would be strong upward pressure on home…
Op-Ed
AI Changes NOTHING About What Students Need to Learn
…Clune quotes sociologist Gabriel Rossman, who notes, “Careful use of AI helps me at work, but that is because I completed my education decades ago and have been actively studying…
Blog Post
Did ICE Raids and Wildfires Slow California’s Progress on Student Absenteeism?
…cross-state comparisons in my Return to Learn Tracker. This figure differs slightly from the state’s published figure of 19.4 percent, which removes students duplicated across districts.) Unfortunately, this slowdown is…
Commentary
Is the US Really an Outlier on Pregnancy Deaths, and Have Such Deaths Spiked?
…The Week article apparently compares this figure to the UK, Canada, and Norway’s maternal mortality rate, which results in an erroneous and overstated cross-country disparity.[5] Another headline from earlier this…