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April 10, 2024
The Political Landmines Buried in the Latest Jobs Report
…in December 2019, part time employment has grown more in absolute terms (by 1.6 million) than full-time employment, which is up by 1.3 million. In percentage terms, part-time employment has…
April 9, 2024
The Case for Curriculum Reform
The education reform movement over the past few decades has focused on standardized testing, accountability, and programs to transform the teacher workforce. During this time, there was surprisingly little conversation…
April 9, 2024
Child Abandonment in the Name of Compassion
A self-described libertarian friend once described to me the feeling she had when it was time to leave the hospital with her newborn baby. She remembered looking at the nurse…
April 9, 2024
The Child Tax Credit: My Long-Read Q&A with Kevin Corinth
…also getting lots of money from economic impact payments or the stimulus payments. We still had those boosted unemployment insurance checks. So this was at a time when, really, we…
April 9, 2024
Biden Knows Student Loan Cancellation Is a Bad Idea
…while benefits are concentrated. Time will tell what the fate of Biden’s constant efforts at forgiveness will be. The courts have held back Biden from blatant executive overreach, and they may well…
April 8, 2024
Accountability Comes to Public Housing
…average tenant has lived in NYCHA housing for more than 20 years. Nearly 30 percent of the tenants are “over-housed”—meaning they have empty bedrooms—at a time when family shelters are…
April 8, 2024
The $1,000 Tax Hike on Middle-Class Families
…than they paid six years ago — at the same time that adults without children will face no tax increase at all. What’s worse is that for every additional kid…
April 8, 2024
We Still Don’t Know How Much Taxpayers Lost Due to Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Fraud
…millions of independent contractors, the self-employed, and others never before eligible for regular Unemployment Insurance (UI) checks. But in some of the worst policy choices of all time, lawmakers failed to…
April 5, 2024
What’s Wrong with the US Economy? Anything?
…of what Americans are experiencing right now: Employment data for some time now is consistent with what we refer to as a 3-2 condition — when unemployment rate stays in…
April 4, 2024
Biden’s ‘Tax Cut’ Rhetoric Is Really Just Code For Benefit Increases
…Democrats temporarily expanded the Child Tax Credit in 2021 to provide payments to non-workers for the first time, the resulting deluge of new benefit payouts turned the IRS into America’s number one welfare agency. The…