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December 26, 2023
…under medical supervision and on the neighborhoods where they are located—is thus of national significance. Other states, cities, and the federal government are doubtless closely watching these two experiments. That…
December 21, 2023
…record for a single-year increase. Our homeless population is now the largest it has ever been. Policy-makers must wake up to this national crisis. Our current approach is broken, and…
December 19, 2023
…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
…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
…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 14, 2023
…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
…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
…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
…will change behavior. That’s why cost estimates for changes to repayment programs have consistently underestimated the cost to taxpayers. As my AEI colleague Nat Malkus has calculated, Congress expected IDR (and…
December 4, 2023
…comparing the ideas of self-labeled National Conservatives (“NatCons”) and President Biden’s tariff and subsidy policies would like more like a near-total eclipse than a Venn diagram. Many on the populist right pine for an era in…