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September 1, 2023
Despite Staggering Improper Payments, New Labor Department Report Calls for Reviving Pandemic Unemployment Assistance
As America prepares to celebrate Labor Day, it’s timely to wonder what the US Department of Labor (DOL) has been up to. One noteworthy recent action was DOL’s August 21…
August 31, 2023
Where Are The Energy Stamps, Joe?
…millions of families are currently losing government health and food stamp benefits as the pandemic recedes only reinforces that point. Then there’s the matter of cost. Just reviving the child allowance payments made in…
August 29, 2023
How to Reengage Parents in Their Children’s Schooling
…student performance with them, and feel more attached to the school community. (This matters most for parents who may otherwise feel marginalized or disconnected.) Parents and teachers collectively set academic…
August 28, 2023
Where Does School Time Go?
…never enough time? It’s because too much time gets lost and wasted. In 2021, in a far-too-unusual study of schools in Providence, Rhode Island, researchers Matt Kraft and Manuel Monti-Nussbaum documented just…
August 24, 2023
Want To End Apartment Warehousing? Ease Up On Rent-Control Laws
…improvements” to units to just $15,000 over a 15-year period. That means that no matter how much owners must spend to repair heating systems, roofs and windows, they’ll be limited…
August 23, 2023
Labor Department Report Finds Pandemic Unemployment Program Had a Staggering 36 Percent Improper Payment Rate
On August 21, the US Department of Labor (DOL) released its long-awaited “improper payment report” on the troubled Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program. PUA was an unprecedented federal unemployment benefit program that…
August 17, 2023
The ‘Utah Family Miracle’ and Why It Matters
…matters because social science tells us that one of the strongest predictors of a state’s economic success is strong families. Recent research by economists Joseph Price at Brigham Young University…
August 16, 2023
How to Strengthen the ‘Success Sequence’ in Utah
…much economic and family security matter for their welfare. What is the ‘success sequence’? Research tells us that education, work and marriage — especially marriage prior to having children —…
August 14, 2023
Keep the Utah Family Miracle Going Strong
…could be called the “Utah Family Miracle” matters because social science tells us that one of the strongest predictors of state economic success is strong families. Recent research by economists…
August 14, 2023
Tracking Plans to Make Pandemic Benefit Expansions Permanent
In 2008, former White House Chief of Staff and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel famously said what has come to be known as Rahm’s rule: “You never want a serious crisis to go to…