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September 6, 2024
The Latest Chronic Absenteeism Numbers
…much into them. More telling will be the national average 2023–24 school year. Some researchers have provided estimates of the 2023–24 national average, but it is hard to predict just…
September 5, 2024
Hurt Pennsylvania’s Workers to Win Pennsylvania’s Votes?
…good-paying union jobs” and raise “serious questions” about the likelihood that the company would remain headquartered in Pittsburgh. The national-security argument here seems equally straightforward: Japan is one of the…
September 2, 2024
This Is How to Fix the Housing Crisis
…need to dust off our history books and remember how this country raised the legal alcohol drinking age. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 demanded states raise the minimum age…
August 29, 2024
The Distribution of Social Capital across Individuals and its Relationship to Income
…linkage and imputation across several nationally representative datasets, we produce a comprehensive measure of social capital at the individual level. We validate our measure by aggregating it to the state…
August 29, 2024
Kamala Harris Wants to Turn the Tax Code into a Mammoth ATM
…tax credits for lower-income households leading the way. That naturally doesn’t include the 150 bills this Congress has proposed creating new or expanded tax credits, or Harris’s 2020 proposal to send $2,000-per-month…
August 28, 2024
Race, Ethnicity, and Measurement Error
Abstract Large literatures have analyzed racial and ethnic disparities in economic outcomes and access to the safety net. For such analyses that rely on survey data, it is crucial that…
August 28, 2024
Some Context Behind JD Vance’s Child Tax Credit Comments
Recently, GOP Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance said on Face the Nation “We should expand the child tax credit… I’d love to see a child tax credit that’s $5,000 per…
August 27, 2024
Poverty Isn’t Neglect, and Money Isn’t Always the Answer
…of the maltreatment deaths in this country. The American public seems to understand that neglect is about more than just poverty. A nationally representative poll conducted by the Bipartisan Policy…
August 26, 2024
Vouching for Self-Sufficiency
…that “voucher receipt increases violent crime, and that this increase is driven by men.” The voucher program is not going away. It now outstrips public housing projects nationwide as the…
August 23, 2024
Can Kamala Harris Learn the Housing Lessons from Her Own History?
…to help make payments. California’s bungalows were part of a nationwide trend of naturally occurring affordable housing: row houses in Philadelphia and Baltimore, three-decker houses in New England, and two-flats…