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June 10, 2024
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 30, 2024
…a “tax cut” 15 times. In reality, the policy was so tilted toward benefit increases it turned the IRS—America’s tax collection agency—into our country’s biggest welfare dispenser. Why are policymakers so eager to cast benefit…
May 29, 2024
…Earlier this month, the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity’s (FREOPP) Preston Cooper and Beth hosted a webinar to discuss a recent report the three of us co-authored on the potential for expanding the…
May 16, 2024
…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
…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…
May 9, 2024
…promising loan cancellation. Lawmakers could use those savings for deficit reduction, or to expand financial aid for truly needy students. But lawmakers who want to pursue privatization must avoid several…
May 8, 2024
…for work in order to receive taxpayer-funded welfare benefits.” But policymakers in Washington are, unsurprisingly, out of step with popular opinion. A recent Brookings Institution seminar sunnily titled “Securing the…
May 2, 2024
…vexing, blind-men-and-the-elephant feeling to all this. School district officials and education policymakers will tell you the post-pandemic lesson is that schools need to adapt and be more flexible, appealing, and…
May 2, 2024
…mixed feelings, how do we think parents and policymakers should think about SEL? We’ll put it this way: If a principal is sending home notes reporting that teachers are making…
April 26, 2024
As the welfare state expands while policymakers struggle to contain its costs, one unintended result is the creation of significant benefit cliffs. A little-noticed September 2023 report authored by Elias Ilin and Alvaro Sanchez…