Search and filter by content type, issue area, author, and keyword
January 17, 2024
…and the second would be an expansion of the existing Low-Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC). The WFHTC would extend eligibility for subsidized units tenants earning below the area median. On a combined basis the…
January 11, 2024
…flexible loan limits which adjust based on the median cost of college for a given program. Moreover, it streamlines federal loan repayment programs, and prevents the Secretary of Education from…
January 9, 2024
…stay, in Fed-speak, “at or near full employment.” Even so, there were important divergences in employment trends within the overall civilian workforce. As an aging Western society, America’s civilian 55+…
January 2, 2024
…off: The schools-ranking website Niche lists it as one of the best U.S. cities to live in. Today, with median housing values of $456,400 and median gross monthly rent of $1,723, the development is…
December 19, 2023
…a Christian school in Nashville whose campus is alcohol-free and specializes in preparing graduates to work in the music industry. The Nashville university also requires study of Shakespeare, the Greeks and the…
December 18, 2023
…— six years after the financial crisis — for the median inflation-adjusted wages to return to its level in 2007 level. For six years, over half of workers lost ground. It is…
December 14, 2023
…and more women have entered the workforce. This considerable improvement in Americans’ well-being is more striking than the share of income accruing to the country’s highest earners. Compare a median-income household to…
December 13, 2023
…median share of single-parent families, compared to cities that have fewer single-parent families. That difference is even larger with respect to violent crime and homicide, specifically, with cities above the…
December 11, 2023
…is a function of cultural preferences, not income inequality. Also worth noting: based on my analyses of the LIS, median income in the US is higher than in any of…
December 11, 2023
…data from HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research, median income per person in public and subsidized housing is just $8,000 today, and 77 % of tenants are classified as “lowest-income”…