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January 21, 2025
How Trump Can Permanently Fix the Student Loan Program
…on the nation’s finances, conservatives need to think about how to proactively stop bad loans from going out the door in the first place. The Biden administration’s surrender on loan…
January 21, 2025
Calling DOGE: HUD’s Costly Hunt for Answers the Market Already Has
…layers of complexity and costs, further discouraging construction. According to the National Association of Home Builders, regulatory costs account for a staggering 24% of total single-family building costs. Small-scale builders—who are…
January 21, 2025
President Trump’s USDA Should Fix Food Stamp Work Requirement Waivers
…percent of the national unemployment rate—even when the national unemployment rate is low. For instance, in 2019, California was able to waive 52 of its 58 counties because, when combined,…
January 17, 2025
Regulations Keep Millions of Bedrooms Empty During a Housing Crisis
…way of allowing the widowed, divorced, and never-married to build households. Short-term rental restrictions further exacerbate the problem. In New York, the nation’s largest city, such restrictions require host owners…
January 16, 2025
Should We Believe the Economic Data or Americans’ “Lyin’” Eyes? The Answer Is Yes.
…entirely reliant on media, cultural impressions, and statistics for how the nation is doing. While people may be dissatisfied with the state of the nation because they think, say, 95…
January 14, 2025
The Pornography Industry Should Not Be Allowed This Much Access to Our Children
…with problematic or compulsive pornography use. For skeptics, it’s important to note that these effects have been documented across dozens of studies, including large national and international surveys, meta-analysis studies,…
January 10, 2025
Marriage: America’s Keystone Institution
…note of marriage’s rising value, but they should also act to make sure that more men, women, and children benefit from our nation’s most fundamental institution. Access the full report here….
January 7, 2025
Tax Policy Should Prioritize Shoring Up the Family
…EITC made it more appealing to choose work over welfare). However, reviving the two-parent family was another explicit goal of welfare reform. While the nation has made some limited progress toward this…
January 7, 2025
Ozempic and Your Community
…community-based GLP-1 experiment. Bowling Green, Kentucky, now known as the Ozempic capital of the country, has something of a natural experiment going on as a large portion of the city is…
January 7, 2025
More Skilled Immigrants for More Economic Growth
…in the United States,” researchers connected Social Security numbers and patent records, finding that immigrant inventors file more patents, receive more citations, and create more valuable innovations than native-born inventors…