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January 11, 2024
Biden’s Dismantling of Federal Student Loan Programs Has Inspired Republicans to Go Big
…Phasing out the inflationary Graduate PLUS and Parent PLUS federal direct loan programs, the package would also expand the Pell Grant for students on-track for on-time graduation, and replace borrowing caps with…
January 10, 2024
By the Numbers: Here’s How the New Federal Financial Aid Formula Harms Families with More Than One Child
The old federal formula for higher education financial aid is dead. The new formula creates winners and losers. Specifically, the new formula harms middle-class families with more than one child in college at a time. It’s…
January 10, 2024
Even Congress’s “Tax Extenders” Are About More Benefits
…taxes a parent has paid, it provided full CTC benefits for the first time even to parents who didn’t owe those taxes in the first place. The authors of the…
January 9, 2024
Let’s Expand the Child Tax Credit a Little Bit
…favor full-time-work-and-certified-day-care over other arrangements, and so much of the approximately $4 billion child and dependent care tax credit could be folded into adding a few hundred more to the…
January 9, 2024
The Success Sequence for Unmarried Mothers
…lived apart. However, the relationship between biological parents broke down over time. By the time of the year 15 survey, only 17% of biological parents were married to each other…
January 8, 2024
Dynamics of Families After a Nonmarital Birth
…rates were dramatically (and statistically) lower when mothers who were unmarried at the time of childbirth subsequently married, worked full-time, and had at least a high school education, suggesting the…
January 4, 2024
To Fix Their Housing Shortage in 2024, Cities and States Should Turn To Market
…of progress from Seattle’s prior upzoning reforms that freed the market from government regulations. To properly evaluate the MHA, one must go further back in time than the HUD assessment….
January 2, 2024
Billionaire-Built Cities Would Be Better Than Nothing
A company backed by Silicon Valley’s most powerful investors, including the LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, assembled a land empire outside San Francisco and announced…
January 2, 2024
We Can Make Chicago Safer By Prioritizing Stronger Families
…promote and advocate for the “success sequence” in schools and social media across American cities — including Chicago. The idea is that a high school education, a full-time job and…
December 31, 2023
Forget Eric Adams’ Flawed Housing Plan — Let’s Make ALL NYC Neighborhoods “High-Opportunity”
New York City residents are facing the ill-effects of drastic, across-the-board budget cuts affecting the most basic city services. It would hardly seem to be the right time for the Adams…