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Commentary
The Medicaid Work Requirement’s Gambling Loophole
…does not necessarily apply to AGI for purposes of federal taxation. Bryan Camp, a law professor at Texas Tech University, argues that revised language in the One Big Beautiful Bill…
Blog Post
Welfare Reform and Its Discontents
This is an edited version of Scott’s recent testimony before the Work & Welfare Subcommittee of the House Ways & Means Committee. In early 1995, the forerunner to this subcommittee…
Blog
Capping Student Loan Interest Would Cost Billions, Help Well-off Borrowers
Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) announced on Wednesday that she would file a discharge petition on her proposal, cosponsored with Representatives Mike Lawler (R-NY) and Jared Moskowitz (D-FL), to lock the federal student…
Op-Ed
Are Big Families the Solution to Declining Fertility?
…start having children, the thinking goes, a more fruitful approach is to encourage current parents to add to their brood. As pronatalists Daniel Hess and Paul Morland enthusiastically suggest, “People who…
Blog Post
Refocusing the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation on Achieving Deep Cost Reductions
…early targets to explore: Bryan Dowd and Anthony T. LoSasso argue for allowing those accountable care organizations (ACOs) with proven cost-cutting records to offer to Medicare beneficiaries discounted cost-sharing, premium…
Commentary
Assessing Duplicative Federal Benefit Programs and Preventing Abuse
…to Strengthen the Social Contract and Save the Country’s Finances, ed. Paul Ryan and Angela Rachidi(American Enterprise Institute, 2022), https://www.americanrenewalbook.com/a-safety-net-for-the-future-overcoming-the-root-causes-of-poverty/. [39] Matt Weidinger, “Turning Back the Clock on Welfare Reform,” AEIdeas, August 23,…
Commentary
The Policy Lessons from Minnesota’s Massive Welfare Fraud
…had a staggering 36 percent improper payment rate. But the scandal-plagued Minnesota programs originated well before the pandemic. Ryan Thorpe and Christopher Rufo report the Feeding our Future program was…
Article
Has Marriage Fallen Because Young Adults Can’t Afford Homes?
…to high interest rates that Federal Reserve Board Chair Paul Volcker imposed to arrest runaway inflation. That rate hike made mortgages costlier and also induced a deep recession. Homeownership among…
Op-Ed
When It Comes to Fraud, Even American Tolerance Has Its Limits
Recent reporting, first by Christopher Rufo and Ryan Thorpe at the Manhattan Institute, and later by The New York Times and other news organizations, revealed a number of schemes by…
Op-Ed
Can School Reform Be Bipartisan Again?
…play a bigger role, plus perhaps teacher organizations that splinter off from the teachers’ unions, like the one Ryan Walters now runs. Rick: You’ve been at this a long time. If you had…
Op-Ed
A Tax-Reform Alternative to Trump’s Tariffs
The Supreme Court will hear arguments next month about the legality of President Trump’s use of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act to impose tariffs on nearly all imports to…
Op-Ed
Subsidized Housing and Upward Mobility
…Chicago and non-resident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. The authors thank Mandana Malgorzata Vakil and Hadar Zeevi for research assistance and Gabriel Rogow-Patt and Paula Worthington for comments….