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Family-Friendly Policies for the 119th Congress
Key Points Read the PDF. Introduction America is in a baby bust, with birth rates…
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How Should State and Local Governments Respond to Illegal Retail Cannabis?
Introduction Legal cannabis has become a fact of life in much of the United States….
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Blue-State Benefits: How Federal Grants Fail to Consider Population Shift
The federal government annually awards hundreds of billions of dollars in grants to states. In this report, I examine funding for the largest federal grant programs for 2020–22, focusing on grants-in-aid that do not fully adjust for population change. For states losing population, I calculate “avoided reductions,” the difference between the grants a state received in 2022 and what it would have received had grant funding been reduced proportionate to population loss. I find that the sums of avoided reductions differ greatly among states, with California, Illinois, and New York spared the most.
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Investing in Ideas, Influencing Policy: A Guide to Think Tank Effectiveness
Executive SummaryAs donors evaluate think tank investments, this paper proposes a series of features that…
