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December 19, 2023
Sins of Omission: Public Broadcasting Fails to Reach a Broad Cross-Section of America
…should be more than local angles on national narratives, although these have their place. Think here of how border communities feel about illegal immigration, or coastal communities react to rising…
December 18, 2023
No Excuses Now for NYCHA
…liked to blame the decline of what was once the nation’s best-managed public-housing system on someone who left office in 1989: Ronald Reagan. Now, thanks to the results of an…
December 18, 2023
The State of Democratic Capitalism: 2023
…Trump administrations. The dark clouds of populism and economic nationalism The United States has been living through an era of populism since the 2008 global financial crisis and Great Recession….
December 15, 2023
Pro-Family Policy Priorities for States
…in the nation have more chil- dren under five today than they did a decade ago—and Texas, Florida, and Tennessee are among their number. Our five selected states share some…
December 14, 2023
Harnessing Tailwinds on State and Local Land-Use Reform: A Bipartisan Playbook
…Edward J. Pinto | Newsweek | September 21, 2023 A Series of Policy Briefs on Zoning, Land Use, and a Solution to the Nation’s Housing Shortage Edward J. Pinto and Tobias Peter…
December 14, 2023
The Myth of the 1%
…new research finds that it may not be true, suggesting that policymakers would do better to focus more on helping the working class. WASHINGTON, DC—For decades, the share of national…
December 11, 2023
How to make smartphones and apps safer for kids
…the second time Utah, under Cox’s leadership, sued a social media company (the previous being against TikTok, probably the worst app for kids); nonetheless, the suit’s bipartisan nature and its…
December 11, 2023
Has Inequality Made Americans Poorer than Bulgarians, Russians, and Filipinos?
…Supplement from December 2019 indicates a similar level of food hardship as in 2021. Rather than comparing these probably incomparable food hardship estimates, we can look at harmonized cross-national data…
December 11, 2023
How Public Housing Encourages Single Parenthood and Penalizes Marriage
…public housing projects as locales of “concentrated poverty,” that was far from the original New Deal goal for the program, when enacted through the National Housing Act of 1937 (as…
December 8, 2023
Room for Compromise on the Hot Foods Act
…administrative burden of disallowing sugary beverages any more cumbersome than allowing the purchase of hot foods while continuing to disallow alcohol and tobacco? SNAP is one of the nation’s most vital safety net programs,…