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Op-Ed
Why First-Time Buyer Age Isn’t Rising—Even as Housing Gets Less Affordable
…reflect tighter credit standards. Instead, it reflects a more competitive market shaped by a persistent housing shortage—estimated at roughly 4 to 8 million homes nationwide. When there are fewer homes…
Op-Ed
There Are Many Reasons to Cheer Up About the State of the Middle Class
This piece originally appeared at National Review Online and is reprinted here with permission. Statistics show that the middle class is healthier and more secure than ever before. This week, Michael…
Report
An Extra Point for Attendance: The Impact of High School Varsity Athletics on Absenteeism
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Commentary
The More Things Change, Medicaid Edition
…was all there. Medicaid, the program Congress had created in 1965 to serve as the nation’s health care safety net for the poor, was being transformed into an open tap…
Op-ed
Compiling My Work on Work Incentives
…Poverty After Welfare Reform, Manhattan Institute (August 22, 2016) https://manhattan.institute/article/poverty-after-welfare-reform “Why the 1996 Welfare Reform Benefited Poor Children,” National Review (September 1, 2026) https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/09/welfare-reform-child-poverty-1996-law-poor-children/amp/ “Yes, the ’96 Welfare reform Helped Reduce Child…
Commentary
Assessing Duplicative Federal Benefit Programs and Preventing Abuse
…2021, https://www.aei.org/opportunity-social-mobility/turning-back-the-clock-on-welfare-reform/. [40] Howard Husock and Bruce D. Meyer, “Subsidized Housing and Upward Mobility,” National Affairs, Fall 2025, https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/subsidized-housing-and-upward-mobility. [41] Gilbert Crouse et al., Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors: 24th Report to Congress, US Department of…
Op-Ed
Congress Gave Families a Raise. Now Let Parents Decide How to Use It.
…keep working, whether full- or part-time. Others would stay home during their child’s first years, which three recent national surveys found most parents prefer. Those are fundamentally different choices, which a payment formula set…
Commentary
Time Limits and Work Requirements Would Improve Subsidized Housing Programs
…receive $1 million in total assistance. Stays of this duration are common: Nationwide, 59% of ongoing spells among non-disabled working-age adults in the voucher program are expected to last more…
Op-Ed
Don’t Tax the Public Housing Poor Like They’re Rich
…— part of the National Housing Act — only Congress can change it; there’s nothing HUD can do on its own. Those with experience administering public housing work requirements —…
Commentary
Summary and Analysis of the “Stop Unemployment Fraud Act”
…Senate Finance Committee. Those committees have jurisdiction over the nation’s unemployment insurance (UI) system, including temporary federal benefit programs created in response to recessions. The provisions of the bicameral legislation,…
Op-Ed
States Can Strengthen Families and Fight Welfare Dependence and Fraud
…behind. One crucial question has gone largely unasked: Why is our welfare system so vulnerable to dependence and fraud in the first place? A second question naturally follows: Why do we keep…
Blog Post
The Mirage of “Pro-Worker AI” via Public Policy
…of jobs—from managing large companies to running nationwide shipping networks. (A Hayekian point seems relevant here: Government planners lack the specialized knowledge and real-time market information to both pick winning…