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September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
Sometimes it seems like Americans can’t decide whether we work too much or too little. We hear that because of rising inequality and a lack of good jobs, workers must…
August 26, 2024
Vouching for Self-Sufficiency
…According to Elizabeth Grossman, general counsel for FHJC, “There is no valid or even rational reason for landlords and brokers to discriminate against those with housing vouchers.” That’s just not…
June 20, 2024
The War on Poverty at 60: Lessons to Inform the Future
…Society and welfare reform and what policymakers should do going forward. Isabel V. Sawhill of the Brookings Institution advocated increasing the minimum wage and expanding the earned income tax credit…
June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
…science of reading is ascendant, with lawmakers in states like Mississippi, Louisiana, and Indiana revamping early literacy instruction according to rigorous, reliable research on how students learn to read. But…
June 10, 2024
The Economic World We’ve Lost
Populism has infected both major parties in the United States, leading to policies that previous generations of economic policymakers would immediately recognized as foolhardy and counter-productive. But whether the country…
May 16, 2024
Critiquing Bastian (2022, 2023, 2024, and forthcoming):On Child Tax Credit Reform and the Sensitivity of Single Mothers to Work Incentives
…Act (ARPA) made it available to non-workers on the same basis as workers. Attempts to make this reform permanent foundered, in part, due to opposition from policymakers who worried that…
May 14, 2024
Understanding Trends in Worker Pay over the Past 50 years
…shift to a service economy and the dissipation of “breadwinner rents” that went to sole male breadwinners in an era when women’s economic opportunities were constrained. Policymakers should seek to…
April 5, 2024
What’s Wrong with the US Economy? Anything?
…to that goal may be a bumpy ride. But he also suggests that the solid pace of economic growth gives policymakers flexibility to respond as new data come in. As…
April 1, 2024
How Private Student Lending Can Repair Higher Education
…with unsecured lending and a hostile regulatory environment. Federal student loans to graduate students and parents are the best candidates for privatization. Policymakers could use a portion of the savings…
March 28, 2024
An Early Look at the Child Tax Credit Changes in the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024
…responses. In the meantime, our early look at H.R. 7024’s changes to the CTC provides some initial evidence to policymakers as they consider the legislation’s merits. Read the full report….