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July 26, 2024
Two Cheers for Shrinking Black-White Opportunity Gaps
…and adolescence, the gap between black Americans who grew up with low-income parents and their white counterparts has narrowed over time. This news is certainly welcome, but don’t pop those…
July 24, 2024
Housing and the American Worker
As the American Worker Project analysis shows, real wages have increased over time. Real wages are nominal wages corrected for changes in the price level, and a natural approach to understanding the…
July 23, 2024
How the 2017 Tax Law Made Itemized Charitable Giving a Luxury Good
…itemized deduction for charitable contributions. At the same time, by nearly doubling the standard deduction, it sharply increased the percentage of tax-filing households choosing not to itemize deductions. This report…
July 17, 2024
Key Takeaways from a New Report on Potential Unemployment Insurance Reforms
…could reduce disparities between states and streamline administration. However, unspooling the current system would be a massive undertaking… Most of the Task Force believes that time and resources are better…
July 15, 2024
It Is Time to Set Goals for Cutting Chronic Absenteeism
…they maintain that priority over time, may prove to be the most important education policy decision for the coming decade. A student is chronically absent if he misses 10 percent…
July 14, 2024
Fostering Normalcy for Foster Kids
…is not just that kids would have a hard time getting jobs, or that they would have to explain their personal situation to their bosses. It is also that kids…
July 11, 2024
Exploring Trends in Food Bank Use
…visitors to food pantries within the time frame asked on the survey would not show up multiple times in the survey data. Another possible explanation is that the survey data…
July 10, 2024
Has Income Growth between Generations of Americans Stalled?
…transfers have affected patterns of income growth over time. The slowdown in intergenerational progress was more pronounced for pretax incomes than for incomes after taxes and transfers. Nevertheless, millennials in…
June 26, 2024
Reducing Racial Disparities in Foster Care Might Endanger Black Children
…of “reasonable efforts” to keep the children with their families. And finally, caseworkers will have to take into account “social and cultural values at all times” in making such decisions….
June 26, 2024
American Workers Are Doing Great. They Could Be Doing Even Better.
…Benjamin Glasner. The other is by Paul Krugman of the New York Times. To the Economic Innovation Group’s attempt to articulate a “new consensus” about the American worker, I’d respond in three…