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Comment on Proposed Rule Establishing Flexibility for Implementation of Work Requirements and Term Limits in Federal Housing Assistance Programs
…or five households could be subsidized for three years each. Time limits could dramatically expand the reach of federal rental assistance programs over time and greatly reduce the amount of time families…
Op-Ed
Chicago’s “Disappearing Middle Class” Can Be Found in Its Proliferating Upper Middle-Class Neighborhoods
…as if it were Alexa setting a timer. But, man oh man. Having spent quite a lot of time on the Chicago project, it was simply stunning to then watch…
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How Policy and Demographics Are Reshaping SNAP: From Families with Children to Older Adults
…rising from roughly 6 percent of the population in 2000 to about 12 percent in 2025 (ERS 2025). However, SNAP’s growth has not been uniform. Over time, demographic trends and…
COSM Commentary
Understanding the Recent Declines in SNAP Participation
…cracking down on improper payments. Although it will take time to fully understand the effects of OBBBA on SNAP, placing caseload trends into context suggests that SNAP participation was due…
Op-Ed
There Are Many Reasons to Cheer Up About the State of the Middle Class
…of economic insecurity, they have likely fallen. One measure of job-to-job flows is the share of workers who hold two or more jobs over a year’s time. That share fell from about…
Op-Ed
Missing Boy Jacob Pritchett Is a Reminder of Why We Can’t Leave Disabled Kids with Ill-Equipped Parents
…tattooed on her arm. Children like Jacobs with disabilities are three times as likely to be victims of abuse and neglect as their able-bodied peers. Why? An article in the…
Blog Post
Refocusing the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation on Achieving Deep Cost Reductions
…know how it will play out). With nearly three years left in its term, the administration still has time to make a concerted push for cost-cutting experiments. There are numerous…
Commentary
The More Things Change, Medicaid Edition
…take the matter into their own hands by ordering a staff investigation. Their findings were shocking. As summarized in a story that ran in the New York Times, the investigators…
Op-ed
Compiling My Work on Work Incentives
…Understate the Costs of a Child Allowance?” American Enterprise Institute (December 16, 2021) https://www.aei.org/research-products/working-paper/did-a-national-academy-of-sciences-committee-on-poverty-reduction-overstate-the-benefits-and-understate-the-costs-of-a-child-allowance/ “Second Time’s the Charm?” with Yuval Levin, National Review (June 15, 2022) https://www.aei.org/op-eds/second-times-the-charm/ “How Much Would Creating a…
Commentary
Opportunity Book: A New Tool for Connecting Policymakers with Innovative Ideas
…poverty that are many times higher for black kids than white kids. Policymakers require serious solutions to tackle these challenges. However, it can be difficult to sift through the political…
Blog Post
Young Men Aren’t Checked Out. We’ve Closed the Paths That Once Guided Them
…men, especially those less inclined toward traditional academic environments. At the same time, vocational pathways remain underdeveloped and culturally undervalued. Consider the contrast. A young man who enters a skilled…
Commentary
Assessing Duplicative Federal Benefit Programs and Preventing Abuse
…Insurance a Bigger Target for Scammers,” AEIdeas, May 27, 2020, https://www.aei.org/opportunity-social-mobility/elevated-claims-and-payments-make-unemployment-insurance-a-bigger-target-for-scammers/. [31] David Manoucheri, “EDD Backlog and Fraud Timeline: How We Got Here,” KCRA 3, June 23, 2021, https://www.kcra.com/article/edd-backlog-and-fraud-timeline-how-we-got-here-california-unemployment-jobless-covid-19/35312619. [32] Relative to the 90 programs…