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February 8, 2024
Another Flawed Analysis Shows that Single Mothers are Highly Sensitive to Changes in Work Incentives
…and consistent with elasticity estimates in Bastian’s own work. Bastian begins by calculating the mean across working single mothers of their average tax rate, doing so in every year from…
February 7, 2024
Child Tax Credit Bill Would Increase Marriage Penalties for Working Single Mothers
…SNAP benefit parameters that took effect starting October 1, 2023, and we assume shelter costs of $1,146 per month for a single parent without children (median gross rent for 1…
February 6, 2024
NYCHA Corruption Means It’s Time To Privatize
…lied about a vital public-health matter — conducting lead-paint inspections of apartments — we learn NYCHA supervisors solicited bribes in exchange for no-bid repair contracts. US Attorney Damian Williams charged 70 NYCHA…
February 6, 2024
Research by a Top Biden Administration Economist Reinforces the Importance of Work Incentives in the Child Tax Credit and the Safety Net
…to quantify this sensitivity, and Bastian and others have unsuccessfully tried to argue that that is far too high. (In truth, the research of even several of these critics, Bastian…
February 5, 2024
Why We All Rely On the Organized Kindness of Strangers
…not long after I began reporting on religion, the average congregation in America had a median attendance of 130 people. By 2020, according to[v] the Faith Communities Today study, the…
February 2, 2024
Has Intergenerational Progress Stalled? Income Growth over Five Generations of Americans
…on the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement. At age 36–40, Millennials had a real median household income that was 18 percent higher than that of the previous…
January 31, 2024
Long COVID for Public Schools: Chronic Absenteeism Before and After the Pandemic
…students. In 2022, 16 percent of Asian students and 24 percent of white students were chronically absent, compared to 36 percent of Hispanic students and 39 percent of black students….
January 30, 2024
How Sensitive Are Single Mothers’ Work Decisions to a Change in Incentives? Correcting Misperceptions of the Evidence
…et al. (2021, rev 2022), p. A-21; single mothers and single mothers w/ hs or less; unpublished Bastian (2020) 0.6 — lower Appendix D; single mothers Bastian and Jones (2021)…
January 23, 2024
A Follow-Up on My Recent Testimony to the Joint Economic Committee on Policy Approaches to Increasing the Supply of Affordable Housing
…offers generous tax credits for builders that rent units to tenants earning below 60% of area median income. During the hearing’s Q&A, I did not have time to elaborate on…
January 21, 2024
Portland’s Encampment Kids
…on the steering wheel, my Hispanic Uber driver asked with exasperation, “What did they think was going to happen?” Portland can seem dystopian. A naked homeless man in a wheelchair…