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June 7, 2023
Don’t Give Away the Farm Bill
…GOP lawmakers should focus on reining in President Biden’s unprecedented and expensive food-stamp hike. The American Rescue Plan’s temporary 15% increase in food-stamp benefits was set to expire shortly after…
June 2, 2023
America’s Failing Child-Protection System
…which was passed in 1997, required states to make “reasonable efforts” at family preservation before terminating parental rights. But lawmakers allowed that there might be “aggravated circumstances” that would make…
May 31, 2023
Ending the Small Checks Scam
…“work participation rate,” an adult must be on TANF, which paid monthly benefits ranging from $146 in Mississippi to $862 in New Hampshire in 2020. Enter clever state lawmakers, who in the…
May 30, 2023
Parenting While High
…heavy machinery or practicing medicine. In all these cases, lawmakers have drawn a bright line. Even in localities where drug use is legal, parenting young children while intoxicated should not…
May 19, 2023
Guilty Until Proven Innocent: America Today
…will not protect one from audits and resulting interest payments. More broadly put, the activities of lawbreakers are being combated by targeting the law-abiding. So it is even in daily…
May 6, 2023
SNAP Needs a Healthy Overhaul
…we can’t attribute our findings to American culture alone. Even when compared to nonparticipants, SNAP adults were particularly unhealthy across the board. This presents policymakers with a unique opportunity to…
May 2, 2023
In Next Recession, Don’t Let Uncle Sam Be Uncle Sucker Again
…focus on containing federal spending, there could be constraints on how much Congress provides. How can policymakers best target future federal aid? They should start by ensuring states keep up their end…
May 1, 2023
Closing Young Minds
…and against forcing bakers to make cakes for gay weddings. By including Brooks on the board, the letter stated, school leaders “made the calculation that the lives, health and wellbeing…
December 15, 2022
The Myth of Income Stagnation
…the former. This is not to suggest that wages and incomes have been growing fast enough, or that policymakers should be satisfied with where we are. Increasing participation in the…
August 30, 2022
Biden’s Student Loan Debt Plan is Driven by Politics, Not Economics
…be facing higher prices and less conservative borrowing as a result of last week’s cancellation announcement. I’ve spent the past decade working to help policy makers and the public better…