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August 2, 2024
Democrats’ Automatic Stimulus Proposals Undermine the Administration’s “Strongest Economy” Claims
Today’s US jobs report finds the nation’s unemployment rate increased to 4.3 percent in July. According to a measure often cited by liberal policymakers, that suggests the US has entered…
August 1, 2024
Two Outrageous Bills Kamala Harris Sponsored Would Crush Taxpayers
…legislation would have doubled the federal budget, sending the current $35-trillion national debt soaring to well over $55 trillion, without even considering its grim inflation and interest rate implications. President…
July 29, 2024
The Real Impact of Zoning and Land Use Reforms Contrary to the Urban Institute’s Claims
…the available information (22%). In the remaining cases, the algorithm incorrectly classified the nature of the policy changes (8%), tagged unrelated articles (8%), or was based on op-eds (3%). This…
July 24, 2024
Housing and the American Worker
As the American Worker Project analysis shows, real wages have increased over time. Real wages are nominal wages corrected for changes in the price level, and a natural approach to understanding the…
July 23, 2024
How the 2017 Tax Law Made Itemized Charitable Giving a Luxury Good
…report uses national- and state-level IRS data from before and after the TCJA to review the combined impact on charitable giving of three policy changes: the increase in the standard…
July 17, 2024
Key Takeaways from a New Report on Potential Unemployment Insurance Reforms
Yesterday, the National Academy of Social Insurance (NASI) released the final report of its Unemployment Insurance (UI) Task Force, of which I am a member. The task force was created…
June 26, 2024
Reducing Racial Disparities in Foster Care Might Endanger Black Children
…The only racial or ethnic group currently subject to different treatment is Native children under the Indian Child Welfare Act, which (similar to the Minnesota law) requires different measures for…
June 23, 2024
Is Systemic Racism Responsible for the Increase in Child Mortality Rates?
…Native American communities, meanwhile, have long suffered from higher levels of violence and above-average rates of suicide. The isolation and sense of hopelessness in Native American territories is palpable —…
June 20, 2024
The War on Poverty at 60: Lessons to Inform the Future
…panel examined poverty measurement. Panelists agreed that the official poverty measure is outdated and should no longer be used by government agencies. David Johnson from the National Academies of Sciences,…
June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
When it comes to education, these have been the best of times and the worst of times. In 2021, Arizona adopted the nation’s first universal education-savings-account (ESA) program. In 2022,…