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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…
March 27, 2025
The Looming Debt Crisis, the Trump Tax Cuts, and Medicaid
Let’s start with a chart to understand the dire fiscal situation we are in as a nation. Figure 1. Federal Debt Held by the Public as a Share of Gross…
March 13, 2025
Two Charts Show Why a Trade War Over Fentanyl Doesn’t Make Sense
…the Trump Administration for the tariffs, but in recent days the President’s advisers have honed in on one reason in particular: Fentanyl is being shipped across our borders with Canada…
January 30, 2025
American Greatness Depends on Strong Families
…affordable. Trump’s Freedom Cities proposal is one great policy idea for creating new housing for American families. The plan to build 10 new D.C.-sized cities on federal land would help cross the…
December 20, 2024
Fixing Inflation, Right-Sizing the Federal Government
…air. In January 1995, Republicans had just won control of both houses for the first time in 42 years. The federal debt had reached 48 percent of gross domestic product…
November 15, 2024
JD Vance is Right: Reduce the Power of Big Foundations to Help Charity
…heart of American civil society — is shrinking. Indeed, overall charitable giving adjusted for inflation and as a percentage of adjusted gross income is declining as we enter the holiday, end-of-year giving season. As…
October 16, 2024
11 Ways the Federal Government Is Making It More Difficult to Access Career Pathways
…percent of the nation’s gross domestic product.4 Unfortunately, while spending on education and workforce development programs continues to increase, a steady stream of regulatory and sub-regulatory barriers enacted at the…
October 11, 2024
HUD’s Housing Misfire: When Bureaucrats Know Better than Markets
…cross-subsidy. Here are a few examples of cities that received grants in FY 2023: Seattle received $5 million for its Mandatory Housing Affordability (MHA) program, which created hundreds of affordable…
October 2, 2024
AOC’s “Social Housing” Dead End
…allure of a socialist “paradise.” To call it soulless would overstate its allure. It has no cross-streets with small shops; instead, groceries must be sought in nearby malls. Nor is…
September 23, 2024
Toward a Potential Grand Bargain for the Nation
…individually, because it allows for different parties to strike deals across policy issues, not just within a single issue. For example, implementing a carbon tax to address climate change seems…