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September 30, 2022
Off Track: An Assessment of Wisconsin’s Early Care and Learning System for Young Children
Preface Raising children, as can be fully appreciated only after you’ve done it, takes place in real time. They eat, sleep and grow whether you’re ready or not. So as…
September 12, 2022
Section 199A and “Tax Parity”
Key Points The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act included a new deduction for pass-through business income (Section 199A), allowing taxpayers to deduct up to 20 percent of qualifying business income…
August 10, 2022
A Failure to Respond: Public School Mask Mandates in the 2021–22 School Year
Key Points From September 2021 to late February 2022, school district mask mandates were in place for 61 percent of students in the US.During that period, Centers for Disease Control…
February 23, 2022
The Case Against Universal Free Lunch
Key Points Progressives argue that universal school lunch would reduce paperwork burdens, yielding administrative efficiency gains. But the true question moves us far beyond debates over welfare economics into the…
October 20, 2021
Public Places and Commercial Spaces: How Neighborhood Amenities Foster Trust and Connection in American Communities
Key Points The COVID-19 pandemic has shifted many Americans’ living preferences toward less dense places. For instance, more Americans would prefer to live in small towns and rural areas than…
October 19, 2021
The Divided State of Our Unions
Executive Summary Where is the American family headed as COVID-19 finally seems to be abating? Focusing on family formation in the United States, this report considers three possibilities: (a) the…
September 2, 2021
Is Civil Society Becoming a Luxury Good?
Key Points This quantitative analysis suggests that the supposed decline in civil-society participation is not geographically uniform throughout the United States. Some lower-income communities have a strong civil-society presence if…
July 2, 2021
Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
Key Points The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) partly improves on the Official Poverty Measure but still suffers from several shortcomings that limit its usefulness as an effective poverty measure. The…
June 10, 2021
Long Shadows: The Black-White Gap in Multigenerational Poverty
Key Points This report examines racial disparities in income mobility across three generations by drawing on data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics. More than half a century since…
April 19, 2021
The Role of Community in Place-based Giving
Key Points This report explores why strong communities matter and how philanthropists can strengthen the local fiber that helps communities improve. Putting people with similar interests in proximity to each…