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July 2, 2025
Have You Heard the Good News?
…11.1 percent as of 2023, the most recent year data are available. This measures poverty on a relative basis. Of course, a relative standard will always find relative poverty. But…
June 25, 2025
De-Skilling the Knowledge Economy
…this report, then, is more limited. Since quantitative estimates are, at this point, subject to too much uncertainty to be useful, it is better, from a policy standpoint, to look…
June 24, 2025
Public Housing and Rental Subsidies
…of the US Government, Fiscal Year 2025 (Government Publishing Office, 2024), p. 547. 23. “Voucher Payment Standards and Utility Standards,” New York City Housing Authority. 24. Buel W. Patch, “Federal Home…
June 20, 2025
Senate Embraces “Do No Harm” for Higher Education
The Hippocratic Oath is coming for higher education. Last week, Senate Republicans released a package of higher education reforms that includes a “do no harm” standard for colleges: Degree programs would be…
June 5, 2025
More Evidence of How Housing Regulation Is Bad for Housing
…regulations have impeded homebuilding for decades, making housing in many such cities unnecessarily expensive and disrupting the historical economic process where people raise their living standards by moving to where…
June 4, 2025
Congress Is Subsidizing the Wrong Neighborhoods
…incentive for long-term investment in economically disadvantaged communities that were designated by governors as so-called opportunity zones, subject to federal standards based on the communities’ median income and official poverty…
May 28, 2025
An Evaluation of Approaches to Cut and Reform SNAP
…give us the highlights of what you found? Sure. So, first, and probably the clearest and easiest thing they could do, though not necessarily from a political standpoint, would be…
May 19, 2025
The Case for Shifting More Welfare Costs to States
…to swollen caseloads, as it subsidizes state policy choices that promote greater benefit receipt. Examples of such policy choices include waiving work requirements, adopting broader eligibility standards (such as “broad-based…
May 14, 2025
Libraries Are Doing the Work—Let’s Fund Them Accordingly
…categories align more traditionally with “bridgebuilding” definitions, we found some of the most compelling examples in the first: access to information, resources, and experiences. One library that stands out is…
May 14, 2025
Graduation in the Time of COVID: The Weakened Relationship with Chronic Absenteeism
…same kinds of students as it did before the pandemic. It is also possible that districts have eased de facto graduation standards to keep graduation rates high despite higher absenteeism….