Welcome to Our Research Archive
Search and filter by content type, issue area, author, and keyword
November 15, 2024
JD Vance is Right: Reduce the Power of Big Foundations to Help Charity
…percent set in the Tax Reform Act of 1969. That super-low tax rate (especially compared to the standard 15 percent capital gains rate) has encouraged the tax-advantaged growth of private…
November 1, 2024
Latest Student Loan Cancellation Proposal Could Be Biggest Yet
…owning a collective $740 billion (nearly half the federal loan portfolio) are enrolled in IDR plans. Theoretically, under ED’s standard, most of that money could be forgiven right away. ED…
November 1, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Policy Book Doesn’t Even Mention Immigration
…given Harris’s Aug. 10 “pivot” to take a supposedly firmer stance on immigration. That omission may help explain Harris’s nonanswers and shifting of blame when pressed on immigration during an Oct. 17 interview with…
October 21, 2024
Dueling Child Tax Credit Proposals: Harris vs. Vance
JD Vance and Kamala Harris have at least one thing in common: proposals to expand the child tax credit (CTC). Currently, the CTC offers households up to $2,000 per child…
October 16, 2024
Kevin Corinth: Addressing Social Capital Poverty in America
Despite improvements in material living standards, the erosion of social connections, civic engagement, and community ties has led to a decline in overall social wellbeing. New research reveals a complex…
October 15, 2024
Lefty NYC Council Add-Ons to Mayor’s ‘City of Yes’ Would Worse Housing Crisis
…to Bill de Blasio’s 200,000 affordable units “created or preserved.” As it stands, New York City has more — far more — of its housing protected from market forces than any other…
October 11, 2024
It’s time to face up to our social poverty problem
…on the incomes and employment of individuals, families, groups and regions — and can therefore say a lot about changes in income, inequality and material living standards. In contrast, we…
October 9, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Main Priority Is Expanding Welfare, Not Strengthening the Middle Class
…it’s fair to ask exactly how middle-class Harris’s childhood was, given that her mother was a prominent biomedical scientist and her father was a tenured professor of economics at Stanford….
October 7, 2024
Presidential Candidates’ Dueling Child Credit Expansions Explained
The Trump-Vance and Harris-Walz presidential campaigns have each recently proposed large expansions to the child tax credit (CTC). Both proposals might be intended to appeal to similar voters, but they…
October 2, 2024
AOC’s “Social Housing” Dead End
…is not to get government to replace the private housing market—which has enabled 65 percent of Americans to become homeowners—but for government to stand aside and let the private market work….