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Op-Ed
Why So Many Men Aren’t Working
Thirty years ago this summer, the sociologist William Julius Wilson published When Work Disappears, in…
Op-Ed
The $580 Medicaid Gambling Loophole
Medicaid is getting a justified makeover on Jan. 1, when most states will begin implementing…
Op-Ed
D.C. Could Help More Families by Decreasing Its Exceptionally High Payment Standard for Housing Vouchers
In the District of Columbia, a family with a federally funded housing voucher can rent…
Report
The Targeting of Place-Based Policies: The New Markets Tax Credit Versus Opportunity Zones
For a place-based policy to succeed, it must target the right areas—typically those with lower…
Blog Post
The Feds Turn to Big Data to Fight Fraud
The Trump administration is moving well beyond rhetoric on tackling fraud and abuse in government…
Op-Ed
The Looming Social Security Cliff
Social Security benefits will shrink beginning in 2032 unless Congress changes the law because, at…
Op-Ed
Why Is DC’s Medicaid Program So Expensive?
My previous two posts provided an overview of the District’s federal funding and compared it…
Op-Ed
Why HUD’s Pushback Against DEI Mortgages Is Good for Black Wealth
It must be viewed as courageous for Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner to…
Book
Generation Uncoupled
In Generation Uncoupled, a leading researcher on American public life investigates the causes and consequences of…
Blog Post
AI and Jobs: A Few Scenarios
The following contract offered on the prediction market Manifold neatly encapsulates pessimism about how artificial…
Op-Ed
Doctor, Patient, and AI
AI in health care promises greater efficiency, but only if it balances the objective knowledge of the physician with the subjective wisdom of the patient.