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February 29, 2024
Addressing the False Claims from Industry Groups on Pilot Testing SNAP Restrictions
…line, each group makes a variety of arguments for why they oppose the pilots. None of these reasons, however, stands up to much scrutiny. Hundreds of items in grocery stores…
February 7, 2024
Solving Benefit Cliffs in SNAP
…amount (i.e., the lower the household’s net income, the higher the SNAP benefit). These deductions include a standard deduction ($198 for a family of three), earnings deduction (20 percent of…
January 29, 2024
Let’s Not Turn the Child Tax Credit Into Welfare
…Congress is far from guaranteed. Some Democrats believe the reforms don’t go far enough to assist poor children, while some Republicans have expressed concerns about relaxing work requirements and increasing spending. As it stands…
January 21, 2024
Portland’s Encampment Kids
I’m standing outside the Central Police Precinct in downtown Portland, Oregon. Officer Eli Arnold and I have bicycled over to meet two of his colleagues, returned from a drug bust….
December 18, 2023
The State of Democratic Capitalism: 2023
…a century if successful. It would switch the baseline standard against which the level of competition in a market is measured. The “big is bad” standard judges competition by the…
December 1, 2023
Unlocking Economic Prosperity: Career Navigation in a Time of Rapid Change
…are broken in the United States, disproportionately affecting Black, Latinx, and Indigenous individuals and those from low-income backgrounds. Disrupting long-standing occupational segregation and improving outcomes for all will require a system…
November 30, 2023
Evaluating the Success of the War on Poverty Since 1963 Using an Absolute Full-Income Poverty Measure
Abstract We evaluate progress in the War on Poverty as President Lyndon B. Johnson defined it, which established a 20% baseline poverty rate and adopted an absolute standard. While the…
November 14, 2023
Forget the Economics of Grievance
…But Trump’s successes were deviations from his brand of nationalism-populism. Indeed, the two major economic policy accomplishments of the Trump years were standard conservative economic fare: needed reform of the…
November 11, 2023
Why is NYC Telling Teachers to Not Keep Kids Safe?
…that a student is missing school, coming in late or arriving unkempt and hungry. To them, the family may simply need some extra cash or a referral to standard support…
October 31, 2023
It Takes Two
…effects of single parenthood? As Kearney notes, the gold standard in research is a randomized controlled trial in which there is a very specific “treatment” given to one group and…