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June 27, 2023
…to rely on welfare—soared during this time period.” Blank and other reviewers typically divided credit for improvements between welfare reform, expansions in the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the strong US economy. Rapidly plunging caseloads following the 1996 reforms spotlighted a…
June 26, 2023
…it reflected differential test preparation never explaining why poorer Chinese parents are able to surmount this barrier. Moreover, as the New York Times last year reported, “Despite over $750,000 spent on test prep…
June 24, 2023
…traditional public housing, including lifetime tenure for tenants. What’s more, it keeps prime property off the tax rolls at a time when New York City desperately needs revenue. The logic…
June 23, 2023
…not even consider the costs of new obesity drugs, which have proven effective but expensive, nor the indirect costs associated with obesity and diet-related disease such as lost work time and…
June 22, 2023
It was presaged during the pandemic: “Masks have also become so much more than mere barrier between germs and lungs,” the New York Times reported in April 2021. “They can keep that too-chatty neighbor…
June 22, 2023
…Times. “Fewer kids are being born.” This is true. Almost every year since 2007, fewer and fewer children have been born in the United States, down from 4.3 million in…
June 21, 2023
…full-time male workers. We first improve on Cass’ cost estimates by correcting conceptual and measurement errors and using better source data. For instance, while Cass uses the average sticker price…
June 20, 2023
A few weeks ago, my college friends and I all got together for the weekend. We are seven guys in our mid-40s who have been friends for about 25 years. We drank beer…
June 20, 2023
…happiness between higher-income and lower-income white Americans in the 1970s, but by the 2010s, “five times as many whites in the lowest fifth for income were unhappy compared to those…
June 16, 2023
…its baseline projections for the number of current and expected future benefit recipients—show that both food stamp and Medicaid caseloads have recently grown many times faster than those would-be reductions. Before the…