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October 15, 2024
Lefty NYC Council Add-Ons to Mayor’s ‘City of Yes’ Would Worse Housing Crisis
…to Bill de Blasio’s 200,000 affordable units “created or preserved.” As it stands, New York City has more — far more — of its housing protected from market forces than any other…
October 11, 2024
It’s time to face up to our social poverty problem
…on the incomes and employment of individuals, families, groups and regions — and can therefore say a lot about changes in income, inequality and material living standards. In contrast, we…
October 9, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Main Priority Is Expanding Welfare, Not Strengthening the Middle Class
…it’s fair to ask exactly how middle-class Harris’s childhood was, given that her mother was a prominent biomedical scientist and her father was a tenured professor of economics at Stanford….
October 8, 2024
Unplanned Obsolescence
…comfortable working around and with it. As the saying goes, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Further, as Stanford University labor economist Erik Brynjolfsson has…
October 7, 2024
Presidential Candidates’ Dueling Child Credit Expansions Explained
The Trump-Vance and Harris-Walz presidential campaigns have each recently proposed large expansions to the child tax credit (CTC). Both proposals might be intended to appeal to similar voters, but they…
October 2, 2024
AOC’s “Social Housing” Dead End
…is not to get government to replace the private housing market—which has enabled 65 percent of Americans to become homeowners—but for government to stand aside and let the private market work….
October 1, 2024
For the Sake of the Kids: Strengthening Families in the Lone Star State
…per thousand Texas residents has fallen by 45%, from 10.5 per 1,000 in 1990 to 5.8 per 1,000 in 2022. The total fertility rate for Texas currently stands at 1.84…
September 25, 2024
The Promise — and Danger — of Kamala Harris’s YIMBYism
…in standards, tastes, and preferences at the local level and that those who seek to build it must marshal good arguments to persuade local officials. That should mean opening the doors…
September 24, 2024
Household Food Insecurity Rises Again – Inflation, especially for households ineligible for safety net programs, to blame
…by historic standards, suggesting inflation remained an important factor to consider when trying to understand food insecurity rates for 2023. This can be seen in Figure 2 where we display…
September 23, 2024
Toward a Potential Grand Bargain for the Nation
…strengthening the link between pay and performance; maintaining educational standards and accountability while narrowing gaps by race and class; expanding school choice; and recognizing the role that parents and families…