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May 19, 2025
The Case for Shifting More Welfare Costs to States
…Association of State Budget Officers (NASBO). That survey concluded that most states have growing rainy day funds, whose median balance as a percentage of state general fund expenditures “has grown…
May 7, 2025
Displacement by Design: How Bad Policy Made Housing Scarce, and How We Can Fix It
…in homelessness. The numbers tell the story: The median value of a single-family detached home built after 1999 in Los Angeles is around $1.5 million, well above the $875,000 median value of…
May 7, 2025
Republicans Unveil Plan to Rein in Student Debt and Waste in Higher Education
…However, for the proposal to move forward, the Senate parliamentarian must rule that all provisions meet the requirements for inclusion under reconciliation rules—namely, that each change has a direct impact on…
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…
April 29, 2025
Good Jobs, Strong Families: How the Character of Men’s Work Is Linked to Their Family Status
…benefits for millions of working-class Americans. The move away from manufacturing had a significant impact on America’s working class. Real wages of the median Americans with a high school diploma…
April 28, 2025
You Autor Know
…points—14 would-have-been manufacturing workers for every 1,000 working-age people. This hypothetical example compares a very heavily hit CZ to a little-affected area. Put the less exposed CZ at the median…
April 25, 2025
What’s holding women back from starting a family?
…The median age at first marriage for American women is now 28.6. What’s more: a record share of young women, about one-third, are projected to never marry. Cooper told the crowd at UVA…
April 25, 2025
A baby bonus is the wrong response to declining fertility
…of around $69,000 in the median state. No family receives the maximum additional amount on behalf of their children for each program in every year, but the point is that…
April 24, 2025
Not Local Enough: The Montgomery County Public Schools Case
…Ukrainian Orthodox parents, are looking to the nation’s highest court to discipline their local school board. Historically, it has been conservatives defending local government as a bulwark of democracy, while…
April 23, 2025
In Case of Emergency, Open Block Grant: Part 2
…opponents have already decried potential changes as “draconian cuts.” Those competing forces suggest a bumpy road ahead for Republicans hoping to rally around specific policies achieving significant budget savings, especially…