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December 11, 2023
How Public Housing Encourages Single Parenthood and Penalizes Marriage
…public housing projects as locales of “concentrated poverty,” that was far from the original New Deal goal for the program, when enacted through the National Housing Act of 1937 (as…
December 8, 2023
Room for Compromise on the Hot Foods Act
…administrative burden of disallowing sugary beverages any more cumbersome than allowing the purchase of hot foods while continuing to disallow alcohol and tobacco? SNAP is one of the nation’s most vital safety net programs,…
December 8, 2023
Biden’s Even Worse Version of “Free College”
…will change behavior. That’s why cost estimates for changes to repayment programs have consistently underestimated the cost to taxpayers. As my AEI colleague Nat Malkus has calculated, Congress expected IDR (and…
December 8, 2023
A Framework for Reforming Federal Graduate Student Aid Policy
…and The Century Foundation undertook a joint process to examine—across ideological lines—the nature of the existing system that finances graduate education, including its benefits and downsides, and to design a…
December 8, 2023
Graduate Student Lending in Desperate Need of Reform
…for their graduate education. Secondly, we should get education subsidies out of the loan program and spend money in ways that reflect our national values. For example, the current policy…
December 5, 2023
The Ninth Annual American Family Survey: Perceptions and Realities of Issues Families Face Today
…| Survey Center on American Life | November 9, 2023 Growing Up in Intact Families Matters More Than Ever W. Bradford Wilcox and David Bass | National Review | October 2, 2023…
December 4, 2023
A Pro-Market and Pro-Social Economy
…comparing the ideas of self-labeled National Conservatives (“NatCons”) and President Biden’s tariff and subsidy policies would like more like a near-total eclipse than a Venn diagram. Many on the populist right pine for an era in…
December 4, 2023
Post-Prohibition Pot Regulation: Should It Be More Like Tobacco?
…the illicit market … [and l]egal sales have been on a two-year slide.” This, in the nation’s largest cannabis market. Non-legal sales are so common that consumer guide sites to…
December 1, 2023
Unlocking Economic Prosperity: Career Navigation in a Time of Rapid Change
…at Harvard and the National Fund for Workforce Solutions collaborated to conduct applied research that included convening focus groups, interviewing subject matter experts, conducting a scan of the National Fund…
December 1, 2023
Red States Can Lead the Way on Marriage and Fatherhood
…homes headed by single mothers. That number has not changed much since 2018. In 2020, nearly 45 percent of all births were to unmarried women, above the national average of…