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August 24, 2024
…One parent works full time making $10 an hour, while the other parent stays home with the children. If they received no government assistance, this family would scrape by on…
August 20, 2024
…the labor of 30 full-time workers who are increasingly difficult to find. The math works: even these expensive robots pay for themselves within a year and continue to reduce labor…
August 18, 2024
…an older couple in Queens having a hard time paying their property taxes can’t decide to let a younger couple with a baby move into their empty bedrooms. It means…
August 16, 2024
On the surface, Kamala Harris’s proposal to provide $25,000 in down-payment assistance to first-time homebuyers looks to be an incentive for upward mobility. Historically, homeownership has been the foundation for wealth creation for…
August 15, 2024
…hedonistic reasons. In explaining why she is childless, Beth Davis, a marketing professional, told The Wall Street Journal that she and her husband “have more time and energy to commit to ourselves,”…
August 7, 2024
…worked 1.3 to 1.4 hours less each week compared with the control group. Instead of working during those hours, recipients used them for leisure time.” In 2021, as part of…
August 5, 2024
…of the bill were being drafted and debated. It was only when Senator Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) pushed for their inclusion, along with Congressional leaders and later President Trump, that…
August 2, 2024
…not in a recession.” That reinforces qualifications Sahm raised in a November 2023 op-ed (“Why My Recession Rule Could Go Wrong this Time”), which noted that growing numbers of “immigrants…
August 1, 2024
Key Points In the interest of students and taxpayers, it is time for bipartisan and commonsense graduate financing policy reform. This issue’s complexity and importance demand a comprehensive solution that…
August 1, 2024
…$21 trillion cost would have been seven times the $3 trillion cost of the 2020 CARES Act — the most expensive bill ever signed into law. While in effect, Harris’…