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December 11, 2023
How Public Housing Encourages Single Parenthood and Penalizes Marriage
…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”…
December 8, 2023
A Framework for Reforming Federal Graduate Student Aid Policy
…“Grad PLUS loans”) have nearly tripled in the last seven years (from $37 billion to $90 billion). Median Grad PLUS loan balances are nearly triple what they were just ten…
December 8, 2023
Graduate Student Lending in Desperate Need of Reform
…from the US Department of Education, but they were constrained to reasonable levels. Since limitless credit became available to graduate students in 2005, graduate student debt has soared: The median…
December 4, 2023
A Pro-Market and Pro-Social Economy
…understanding of the fundamentally social nature of market economics, as Gregg explained in his recent appearance on our Hardly Working podcast, is heavily indebted to the Scottish Enlightenment and one of its chief protagonists, Adam Smith. According to Gregg, the Smithian tradition…
December 4, 2023
Post-Prohibition Pot Regulation: Should It Be More Like Tobacco?
…to hearing Bulgarian, Chinese, Russian and even Hebrew spoken at the grocery store.” What’s more, large numbers of localities — the majority in California and New York — have chosen…
November 30, 2023
A Valuable New Perspective on America’s War on Poverty
…This relative measure adjusts yearly thresholds in line with median income changes. “The dramatic reduction in poverty by 2019 based on President Johnson’s absolute 1960s standards suggests that policymakers might…
November 11, 2023
Why is NYC Telling Teachers to Not Keep Kids Safe?
…found that Black children “were killed by family members at about seven times the rate for white and Asian children and three times the rate for Hispanic children.” But no,…
November 9, 2023
What Dems — And NYC — Can Learn From The GOP’s Bronx City Council Win
…are all mixed, they are black, Spanish, Indian,” she said. “I feel sad because why they doing this, I don’t understand.” That’s how a Republican can win in a district…
November 9, 2023
Child Support Policy: Areas of Emerging Agreement and Ongoing Debate
This paper will be delivered at the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management 2023 Fall Research Conference. Abstract The Child Support Enforcement (CSE) system has a broad scope and provides…
November 8, 2023
Measuring the Geography of Social Networks
…shows that there are strong social links between Norway and the states of Minnesota and Wisconsin, which saw large inflows of Norwegian migrants in the late 19th and early 20th…