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August 26, 2024
…that “voucher receipt increases violent crime, and that this increase is driven by men.” The voucher program is not going away. It now outstrips public housing projects nationwide as the…
August 23, 2024
…to help make payments. California’s bungalows were part of a nationwide trend of naturally occurring affordable housing: row houses in Philadelphia and Baltimore, three-decker houses in New England, and two-flats…
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
…national conversation, with good reason. The fertility rate has hit a record low in the United States, with the average American woman now expected to have just 1.6 births in her lifetime,…
August 6, 2024
…of medical research which the National Institutes for Health shies away from (think mRNA). Maintaining the charitable deduction and extending it to a wider economic range of taxpayers should be…
August 1, 2024
…legislation would have doubled the federal budget, sending the current $35-trillion national debt soaring to well over $55 trillion, without even considering its grim inflation and interest rate implications. President…
July 29, 2024
…neighborhood adjacent to Gottman’s Love Lab, the picture-perfect Laurelhurst community alongside Lake Washington in Seattle, has some of the strongest families in the nation, with nearly 90% headed by two…
June 26, 2024
…The only racial or ethnic group currently subject to different treatment is Native children under the Indian Child Welfare Act, which (similar to the Minnesota law) requires different measures for…
June 23, 2024
…Native American communities, meanwhile, have long suffered from higher levels of violence and above-average rates of suicide. The isolation and sense of hopelessness in Native American territories is palpable —…
June 18, 2024
When it comes to education, these have been the best of times and the worst of times. In 2021, Arizona adopted the nation’s first universal education-savings-account (ESA) program. In 2022,…