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May 13, 2025
Out of Work and On the Dole — Is Uncle Sam Contributing to Young Men’s Malaise?
…We should note that national surveys, such as the Current Population Survey, tend to underreport the share of adults on such programs. To Finley’s point, the share of young men receiving one…
May 10, 2025
How Single Room Occupancies Could Be the Answer to NYC’s Housing Crisis
…“The Housing Maintenance Code does not allow housing with shared facilities as-of-right.” As attorney Patrick Sullivan, who follows housing law for the law firm Kramer, Levin, Natalie’s and Frankel, explains:…
May 7, 2025
Did ‘China Shock’ Throw Millions of Americans Out of Work?
…papers, concluding that the effects they find are small relative to the claimed impact on community life and national politics; that the negative effects found in subsequent papers that have…
May 5, 2025
What’s in House Republicans’ Student Loan Overhaul
…programs like medicine have a limit of $150,000. These loans are currently unlimited. Annual loan limits are equal to the median cost of attendance for similar programs nationally, minus any…
May 2, 2025
Without Qualified Workers, Our CHIPS Investments Could Be Money Down the Drain
…of advanced chips from 37 percent to 10 percent, this “industrial policy” investment was justified as necessary for national security and as a measure to reinvigorate manufacturing. To date, Congress…
May 1, 2025
Tariffs Plus AI Makes for a Rocky Job Market. How Should Workers Prepare?
…work rather than augmentation. Labor is almost always the largest expense of any business, and there’s a natural tendency to seek ways of restraining those costs to improve the bottom…
April 28, 2025
Letter to the Editor: Sugary Treats Shouldn’t Be on the SNAP Menu
…their own money. The rationale for restricting SNAP purchases lies in ensuring that this taxpayer-funded program is aligned with its purpose. President Richard Nixon nationalized the food-stamp program in 1973 to address…
April 25, 2025
What’s holding women back from starting a family?
…at the University of Virginia for the National Marriage Project’s spring conference, cosponsored with the Wheatley Institute. Cooper is 23 and had celebrated her one-year anniversary the week before the event….
April 4, 2025
How One State Improved Its NAEP Scores
The most recent National Assessment of Educational Progress results had a lot of bad news, but there were some scattered bright spots. Louisiana was one of them. In fact, the…
April 3, 2025
Trump’s Tariffs Are a Historic Tax Hike
…than it produces. The US invests more than it can finance through national savings. Simple national income accounting demonstrates that this state of affairs requires that the US also run…