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Trump Takes Dramatic Step Toward Curbing Rampant Fraud in State Unemployment Programs
The Trump administration is threatening to use “every available enforcement tool” to compel states to better protect unemployment benefits against fraud and abuse.
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Americans Still Believe in Work. The AI Crowd Hasn’t Gotten the Memo
Promises of vast new work-free benefits seem somewhere between a believe-it-when-I-see-it vision and just the latest liberal plan to expand an already-bloated welfare state.
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Discussing Medicaid work requirements: Corinth on C-SPAN’s ‘Washington Journal’
Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility Deputy Director Kevin Corinth discusses Medicaid work requirements on…
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The US Needs a New Safety Net
Congress is considering a major anti-poverty reform: giving states more flexibility to redesign welfare and…
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Weed and Kids Are a Risky Mix—but “Garden Moms” Are Toking Up
Motherhood is hard; weed helps: That’s the toxic message from a new group of online…
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Are Big Families the Solution to Declining Fertility?
“Big families are like waterbed stores,” comedian and father of five Jim Gaffigan jokes. “They used…
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Daddy Issues: Review of “Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How It Shapes Men’s Lives”
When my husband and I moved into our first house, our closing lawyer handed us…
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The Long, Slow Death of Social Democracy
For three decades, social democracy was the most successful product of a working-class movement that…
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Scott Winship Discusses American Wealth Growth and the Discrepancy Between Gloomy Consumer Sentiment and Actual Financial Growth.
Scott Winship discusses American wealth growth, exemplified by the SpaceX IPO making thousands of employees millionaires. He argues…
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Albany Acts to Rescue Kids from Deadly Abuse—10 Years Too Late
Days ago, Albany politicians did the unthinkable: They passed a sensible piece of legislation that…
Op-Ed
Free-Market Forces Behind Fishtown’s Revival
This opinion letter was originally published in the The Wall Street Journal. You can read the…
Op-Ed
The Shrinking Middle Class and Booming Upper-Middle Class: The Plot Thickens
Earlier this year, our report, “The Middle Class Is Shrinking Because of a Booming Upper-Middle Class,”…