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Testimony
Stranded by the Safety Net: Addressing Benefit Cliffs to Assist Families and Businesses
Chairman Ernst, Ranking Member Markey, and members of the Small Business Committee. Thank you for…
Article
Poverty and Dependency in the United States, 1939–2023
In 1964, President Lyndon Johnson declared the War on Poverty. This set in motion the…
Commentary
Pandemic Unemployment Fraud Data Continue to Amaze—and Not in a Good Way
On May 18, or more than 1,700 days after an alphabet soup of temporary federal…
Op-Ed
Congress Shouldn’t Create Another Newborn Benefit
A bipartisan group of lawmakers recently introduced the Supporting Newborn Parents Act of 2026, which would…
Commentary
Zoning Creates Not Just a Housing Affordability Problem, but a Childcare Affordability Problem Too
Childcare affordability and access are regulatory problems, but many miss the extent to which these…
Commentary
Bill Would Require States to Use Future Federal Funds to Repay Unemployment Loans First
Yesterday Rep. Vince Fong (R-CA) introduced H.R. 8892, the “Creating Accountability in Loan (CAL) Repayment…
Op-Ed
When Washington Picks Up the States’ Tab, Waste and Fraud Follow
Congress has caught on that how welfare and related programs are funded, and who does the spending,…
Op-Ed
Dem Policymakers Plan to Exploit AI Job Fears to Push the ‘Perfect Recipe for Fraud’
Behind the scenes in Washington, many policymakers are planning for an economic disruption: potential job…
Blog Post
Education Scorecard Looks Beyond Recovery
This week, the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University and the Educational…
Working Paper
The Value of Reliable Statistics
AbstractOn August 1, 2025, President Trump fired the head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor…
Report
Beyond “Do No Harm”: The Next Era of Value-Based Accountability Policy
Key Points Introduction Higher education policy does not evolve in a straight line. It moves…