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January 12, 2024
Congress Shouldn’t Expand Welfare in Return for Corporate Tax Cuts
…Moving forward, Congress could automatically increase the maximum benefit with inflation each year to ensure its real value stays constant over time, though Congress should avoid jacking up the current…
January 12, 2024
Get Ready for AI-Driven Skill Democratization
…platter knowledge and skills that would otherwise take considerable time, effort, and money to acquire, potentially broadening and strengthening our human capital base and freeing up highly talented people to…
January 12, 2024
What is the Utah “Family Miracle”?
…national media — from NPR to The New York Times — it led other states across the nation, from Arkansas to Texas, to also take legislative steps to reign in Big Tech and protect…
January 11, 2024
Tax Credit Nation — Politicians Are Casting New Spending As ‘Tax Cuts,’ Hiding Their True Cost
…president called the policy a “tax cut” 15 times. Despite that rhetoric, the policy actually dispensed far more in new benefit spending than tax relief. That’s typical, especially when politicians describe “refundable”…
January 10, 2024
By the Numbers: Here’s How the New Federal Financial Aid Formula Harms Families with More Than One Child
The old federal formula for higher education financial aid is dead. The new formula creates winners and losers. Specifically, the new formula harms middle-class families with more than one child in college at a time. It’s…
January 10, 2024
Even Congress’s “Tax Extenders” Are About More Benefits
…taxes a parent has paid, it provided full CTC benefits for the first time even to parents who didn’t owe those taxes in the first place. The authors of the…
January 9, 2024
Let’s Expand the Child Tax Credit a Little Bit
…favor full-time-work-and-certified-day-care over other arrangements, and so much of the approximately $4 billion child and dependent care tax credit could be folded into adding a few hundred more to the…
January 9, 2024
The Success Sequence for Unmarried Mothers
…lived apart. However, the relationship between biological parents broke down over time. By the time of the year 15 survey, only 17% of biological parents were married to each other…
January 4, 2024
To Fix Their Housing Shortage in 2024, Cities and States Should Turn To Market
…of progress from Seattle’s prior upzoning reforms that freed the market from government regulations. To properly evaluate the MHA, one must go further back in time than the HUD assessment….
January 2, 2024
Billionaire-Built Cities Would Be Better Than Nothing
A company backed by Silicon Valley’s most powerful investors, including the LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, assembled a land empire outside San Francisco and announced…