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Perspective: The ‘social workplace’ and why it matters to Zoomers
…human. Looked at this way, markets are human social behavior “at-scale,” driven by the innate human tendency to trade for mutual development and benefit. Data from our most recent report on “The…
Blog Post
Democrats in the House Have a New (Old) Plan for Higher Education
…released new legislation outlining their vision for higher education reform beyond the administration-led student loan cancellation agenda. In some sense, this marks a welcome return to normalcy, where lawmakers on both sides…
Blog Post
How Should Students Think About College?
In recent years, there has been a marked decline in public confidence in higher education, sparking debate on the value of a bachelor’s degree. In a new report published by…
Blog Post
A Follow-Up on My Recent Testimony to the Joint Economic Committee on Policy Approaches to Increasing the Supply of Affordable Housing
…concluding, however, that we need to spend more money on “affordable” housing, let’s first consider another version of a simplified, yet functioning market: the car market. Just like new and…
Blog Post
Can Workforce Development Programs Improve Labor Force Participation?
…appears to be a chronically tight labor market. More importantly, the simulation found expanded workforce development programming would increase labor force participation by three percentage points. That change would be…
Blog Post
Ninety Percent Student Attendance Won’t Solve Chronic Absenteeism
…absent. That is bad for achievement, odds of graduation, and a number of long-term markers of success. In my view, this is the greatest post-pandemic challenge for public schools. Indeed,…
Working Paper
The Work Incentive and Employment Effects of Eliminating the Child Tax Credit’s Annual Income Requirement
…We also discuss how the reform would affect the incentive to work more or fewer hours. We conclude that this reform would have important impacts on the labor market that…
Testimony
Achieving Housing Abundance Through State and Local Land Use and Zoning Reform
…the urge to increase the supply of affordable housing. Before taking any action, it should first consider a couple of misconceptions: Misconception 1: The housing supply shortage is a market…
Blog Post
Tax Extenders Package Would Cut the Child Tax Credit’s Annual Work Requirement in Half
…qualify for the CTC, which will be based on their 2023 earnings. But the agreement announced yesterday—which the Ways and Means Committee may mark up as soon as Friday—would allow parents to instead use earnings in either of the last two years to claim the…
Op-Ed
Congress, Don’t Legislate a Takeover of the Nation’s Rental Housing Market
…According to one study, almost all LIHTC development would have been built by the market without any subsidies. If that’s not enough, LIHTC also limits social mobility by creating the perverse incentive…
Article
Get Ready for AI-Driven Skill Democratization
…and, to a lesser extent, trade dramatically reduced the number of middle-skill jobs leading to what economists called a “polarized” labor market: many high-skilled and low-skilled jobs but relatively few that…
Op-Ed
What is the Utah “Family Miracle”?
…teens. And under Cox’s leadership, Utah has also launched a social marketing campaign — relying on billboards and social media ads of its own — to highlight the dangers of social media and…