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June 27, 2023
House Republican Plan Penalizes Marriage
…“amazingly large.” Specifically, “Public assistance caseloads have declined by half since their peak in 1994. . . . Labor market participation among single mothers with young children—the group historically most likely…
June 24, 2023
City Can No Longer Afford Life-Long Subsidies for Lucky NYCHA Tenants
…Far better to compensate current Chelsea-Elliott-Fulton tenants, provide them time to find new housing and “unfreeze” some of NYCHA’s frozen real estate. In the private housing markets (in which most…
June 23, 2023
SNAP Can Improve Nutrition, Help Farmers, and Support the Environment
…one year. According to Wall Street Journal reporting, snack companies are doubling down on their snacking strategy, while other traditional food companies are looking to enter the snack food market…
June 21, 2023
The Bad Math Behind Economic Doomerism
It’s a big week for American Compass, a think tank founded in 2020 that fancies itself as the “pre-eminent alternative to the Old Right’s market fundamentalism.” On the heels of its new…
June 15, 2023
Instead of ‘Late Capitalism,’ Maybe the US Economy Is Still in ‘Early Capitalism’
…market level, pay increases for low-wage workers were associated with tightening labor markets. These dynamics delivered a period in which earnings growth has been higher for workers at the bottom…
June 14, 2023
Better Data Means Better Policy
…to compound into marked differences in long-term income growth. This point contradicts any insinuation that the Census Bureau implemented this change for political reasons. Using a more accurate inflation measure…
June 13, 2023
Is There an AI Gender Gap?
…going away. Its influence on our lives and jobs is growing rapidly with a flood of new tools entering the market on a daily basis. Some of these innovations will…
June 11, 2023
Now Political Polarization Comes for Marriage Prospects
…has seen single young men shift slightly to the right and single young women move markedly left, which means that the ideological divide between the sexes is growing. This poses…
June 7, 2023
Don’t Give Away the Farm Bill
…the Thrifty Food plan to demonstrate the cost of a healthy diet, helping families find nutritious food on a budget. It serves as the benchmark for food stamps, also called…
June 7, 2023
The Effect of Relaxing Local Housing Market Regulations on Federal Rental Assistance Programs
…Angeles (all 11 metropolitan areas) produced new housing units at the same rate as the 90th percentile metropolitan area for a decade, market rents would fall by 18.1 percent (2.0…