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October 12, 2023
…at stake. It’s a task for another day to compare the differences between recent congressional and the new administration proposals on all these counts. In the end, those distinctions matter far…
October 12, 2023
…matter. That’s why the three largest “blue states” — California, New York, and Illinois, which, between 2010 and 2020, together lost a total of 1.1 million residents, or more than…
October 12, 2023
…Erica Green (you can see the video here). Across town, at exactly the same time, Rep. Matt Gaetz and his gang of very online arsonists were toppling the House Speaker out…
October 12, 2023
…grants; the opposite is also true, although some programs guarantee a minimum for any state, no matter its size. What’s more—as common sense would dictate—when a state’s population declines, that…
October 10, 2023
…into foster care because they were at “substantial risk of death.” That risk didn’t seem to matter to Judge Erik Pitchal, who — even after another incident a few months…
October 5, 2023
…producing independent and apolitical statistics. Aside from these process related issues, policymakers should be concerned about this matter for two additional reasons. First, as already noted making the SPM the…
October 4, 2023
…Washington Heights. It estimates a potential for about 200,000 such units if this housing option were legalized. Details about safety matter, of course; any legal units will require two exits…
October 2, 2023
Stable, two-parent families have always mattered for kids. But today, we have new evidence that they may matter more than ever. A new study from the Institute for Family Studies (IFS) indicates…
September 29, 2023
…pandemic. Read the full response here. [1] Department of Labor, “Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims,” July 9, 2020, https://oui.doleta.gov/press/2020/070920.pdf [2] For a discussion of the involvement of international criminal organizations, see Matt Weidinger,…
September 29, 2023
Last week, the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office (GAO) added a startling new figure to the ever-growing estimates of abuse inflicted on unemployment benefits during the pandemic, finding that “between $100 billion and $135 billion”…