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July 1, 2025
More Information Sharing Means Fewer Taxpayer Losses to Fraud
Last month, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) introduced a resolution of inquiry objecting to the Trump administration’s development of a “centralized database” that “compiles American citizens’ personal information across federal agencies and departments.”…
June 25, 2025
De-Skilling the Knowledge Economy
…degrees, AI is on course to affect virtually all jobs. The novelty we experience today with AI will eventually become commonplace, and AI will become integrated across many human activities….
June 5, 2025
The One Thing Both Parties Agree On: More Deficits and Debt
…reveals one dangerous issue that both parties agree on: significantly increasing deficits and debt. Consider the last two administrations. Before Trump’s first term started, gross federal debt stood at $20 trillion….
May 27, 2025
The Surprising Role of Large Developers in Solving the Housing Crunch
…federal financing guidelines, borrowers are permitted to take on higher DTI ratios. The typical borrower now spends up to 41% of gross income on debt payments, up from 37% a…
May 19, 2025
The Case for Shifting More Welfare Costs to States
…of the legislation, at $128 billion out of the gross $300 billion the committee legislation is projected to save over the next decade. In a similar fashion, Medicaid “expansion” policies—which…
May 14, 2025
An Evaluation of Cost-Saving Reforms to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
…if its gross income is less than 130 percent of the federal poverty line (equal to about $34,000 annually for a household of three), although in many states, even higher-income households…
May 14, 2025
Libraries Are Doing the Work—Let’s Fund Them Accordingly
…rising social and political division in the United States. For this project, we defined bridgebuilding as: “Engaging across difference in ways that respect identities, foster mutual relationships, seek a common…
May 7, 2025
Did ‘China Shock’ Throw Millions of Americans Out of Work?
…used to estimate national job loss figures, because the cross-area comparison misses any effects that are common to geographic areas. Those effects might be negative, but they might be positive….
April 28, 2025
You Autor Know
…impact of Chinese import competition on manufacturing employment across geographic areas increased by 50 percent compared with their estimate using “gross trade”. However, the variation across CZs in exposure to…
March 28, 2025
Unfreezing New York’s Projects
…vast open spaces of the so-called public housing campuses across the city—and, indeed, across the country. This is central to NYCHA executive Gouveia’s vision: transforming Fulton & Elliott–Chelsea from an…