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April 8, 2024
The $1,000 Tax Hike on Middle-Class Families
When Americans file their taxes in the coming weeks, one group will be singled out for a tax hike: middle-class families with children. This April, a family with three children making…
April 8, 2024
We Still Don’t Know How Much Taxpayers Lost Due to Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Fraud
…concentrated during the program’s first few months when $600-per-week PUC supplements far outweighed guaranteed minimum PUA payments averaging around $165 per week nationwide. Omitting that enormous figure would do more than diminish…
April 5, 2024
What’s Wrong with the US Economy? Anything?
…and adopting a go-slow approach on AI regulation. Sorry to be a Debbie Downer about debt and deficits, but CBO predicts the national debt will nearly double to $48.3 trillion by 2034,…
April 5, 2024
The US Is Failing Substance-Exposed Infants
…and Health: Summary of National Findings,” September 2011, https://www.samhsa.gov/data/sites/default/files/NSDUHNationalFindingsResults2010-web/2k10ResultsRev/NSDUHresultsRev2010.htm. US Department of Health and Human Services, “SAMHSA Announces National Survey on Drug Use and Health (NSDUH) Results Detailing Mental Illness and…
April 3, 2024
School Absenteeism Has Become A Big Problem. But We Can Do Something About It.
…Nat Malkus, who’s tracked the numbers on chronic absenteeism in his widely-referenced Return to Learn Tracker, has reported the situation is even worse in the nation’s poorest and low-achieving communities. In Los Angeles,…
March 31, 2024
Can Local Journalism Be Saved?
…local politics, and crime. But is the rise of nonprofit local news a Trojan horse? Major national foundations have funneled hundreds of millions of dollars into the new generation of…
March 30, 2024
Preventing Weed Smoking — Not More Weed Shops — Is What NYC Needs Now
…be effective. A National Institutes of Health-funded study found that “mass-reach health communication campaigns can increase tobacco cessation and change tobacco-related social norms.” That’s exactly what we need when it comes…
March 28, 2024
Finally, a Chance to Start Getting Higher Ed Right
…of some of the nation’s most prestigious universities, the blatant and unrepentant campus antisemitism on display, and the laughably hypocritical double standards applied to speech have illustrated the problems in…
March 26, 2024
Reading Scores Have Plunged Since the Pandemic. What This Senator Wants to Do About That
…a literate workforce, we as a nation cannot fill the 9 million jobs currently open or adequately staff the military, which hurts our competitiveness with other nations. Within literacy, research…
March 25, 2024
Families Slip Back Into Poverty After Pandemic-Era Child Tax Credit Expires
…and deaths. John Yang: Widespread economic damage is becoming clearer. Amna Nawaz: As the nation shut down, Chatman lost her job. Dafnee Chatman: The best way I can explain it…