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May 13, 2025
Common-Sense SNAP Reforms Included in House Agriculture Reconciliation Proposal
…reduce redundant programming. A few key areas left unaddressed in the reconciliation bill text involve establishing nutrition standards in SNAP, addressing benefit cliffs, and eliminating the use of broad-based categorical eligibility by states to expand…
May 12, 2025
To Improve Student Outcomes, Focus On Classroom Practice, Not Policy
…instruction. This wasn’t teacher failure—it was a systemic failure to train educators in what works. To be clear, teaching and learning cannot be divorced from education policymaking. Structural reforms—standardized testing,…
May 7, 2025
Colleges Must Help Return Student Borrowers to Repayment
…Department’s student aid dashboard to educate themselves about repayment options and ensure their loans are in good standing. Schools are encouraged to “focus their initial outreach on students who are delinquent on…
May 7, 2025
Displacement by Design: How Bad Policy Made Housing Scarce, and How We Can Fix It
Musical chairs is one of the first games we play as children. The rules are simple: there are fewer chairs than players. When the music stops, someone ends up standing….
May 7, 2025
Workforce Participation for Older Americans: Warning Lights Flashing
…trending down. The faltering trends for older workers stand in contrast to those for the rest of the US labor force. LFPRs for US youth (the 15–24s) are higher today…
May 5, 2025
What’s in House Republicans’ Student Loan Overhaul
…where lawmakers have proposed their own set of student loan reforms that differ on some points. However, the policies in the House package stand a better chance of becoming law than any…
April 28, 2025
You Autor Know
…smaller job loss totals using their estimates. As an example, we can compare two CZs with import exposure differing by a standard deviation, and otherwise plug in the same numbers…
April 28, 2025
House Republicans’ Proposed Repayment Plan Fixes Vexing Student Loan Problem
…nearly a dozen different loan repayment plans and create just two: a standard repayment plan and an entirely new income-driven repayment (IDR) plan. In addition to simplification, the proposal aims…
April 24, 2025
In Opposing Last Month’s Continuing Resolution, Nearly All Democrats Voted to Shut Down Welfare Checks, Too
…tax bills, added to unrelated legislation, or passed as stand-alone legislation.” Since it was created in 1996, TANF has been extended on a long-term basis only once, in legislation covering fiscal years…
April 24, 2025
Not Local Enough: The Montgomery County Public Schools Case
…books on LGBT themes. The case appears, on the surface, to reverse long-standing views of the role of local government. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, defended…