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March 4, 2024
…All values correspond to the combined amount of income, taxes or transfers across both potential partners. One potential partner has three dependent children under age 17, and she earns $20,000…
February 23, 2024
…“The Multi-Family Zoning Requirement for MBTA Communities” is a classic, one-size-fits-all. Each of the 177 MBTA district cities and towns is mandated to create a district with a minimum gross…
February 7, 2024
…1, as household income approaches the gross income limit (in this case $29,940 per year), the household faces a steep benefit cliff. For example, a hypothetical household with $29,930 gross…
February 7, 2024
…SNAP benefit parameters that took effect starting October 1, 2023, and we assume shelter costs of $1,146 per month for a single parent without children (median gross rent for 1…
February 7, 2024
…expand to more of the nearly 1,000 public broadcasting license holders across the country — the legislation that created public broadcasting in the first place needs a crucial update. A…
February 6, 2024
…numbers from his forthcoming NTJ paper.[3] He finds 6.8 million working EITC-eligible single mothers and 1.9 million other working single mothers with adjusted gross income under $80,000.[4] It looks like…
January 2, 2024
…off: The schools-ranking website Niche lists it as one of the best U.S. cities to live in. Today, with median housing values of $456,400 and median gross monthly rent of $1,723, the development is…
December 19, 2023
…insofar as public broadcasting stations across the U.S. receive shares of some $267 million CPB distributes as community service grants to them to operate and broadcast the NewsHour and other…
December 11, 2023
…Supplement from December 2019 indicates a similar level of food hardship as in 2021. Rather than comparing these probably incomparable food hardship estimates, we can look at harmonized cross-national data…
December 11, 2023
…private housing, paying more than 50% of family gross income for rent.” The income rule effectively favors those of lowest income—who are most likely to be single parents with children. Indeed, per…