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September 4, 2024

Kamala Harris’s Housing Plan Would Be Worse Than Doing Nothing

…buyers typically make a median down payment of around $10,500, or 3 percent of the home price. We estimate that even without the Harris proposal, 3 million of its recipients…

September 2, 2024

This Is How to Fix the Housing Crisis

…while overall inflation is dropping. The National Association of Realtors reports that the median sale price for an existing single-family home was $422,000 in the second quarter of 2024. One-half…

August 16, 2024

The Harris Campaign’s Foolish Down-Payment-Assistance Scheme

…report aptly titled “External Effects of Concentrated Mortgage Foreclosures,” found that “high-exposure neighborhoods tend to have a greater proportion of black and Hispanic residents, lower median incomes, lower median sales…

August 1, 2024

Two Outrageous Bills Kamala Harris Sponsored Would Crush Taxpayers

…could collect up to $10,000 per month or an astonishing $120,000 per year — nearly double the U.S. median household income of $67,521 in 2020. Across a span of 42…

July 26, 2024

Two Cheers for Shrinking Black-White Opportunity Gaps

…Chetty and his coauthors. They just didn’t deteriorate as badly as among white kids raised poor. This was true of average and median household income, reaching the top fifth of…

July 10, 2024

Has Income Growth between Generations of Americans Stalled?

…X and millennials. The median household income of 36-to-40-year-olds from the silent generation was 34 percent higher than that of the Greatest Generation. The median income of baby boomers in…

June 26, 2024

Reducing Racial Disparities in Foster Care Might Endanger Black Children

…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 20, 2024

The War on Poverty at 60: Lessons to Inform the Future

…Fellow, Center for Health and Welfare Policy, Heritage Foundation Isabel V. Sawhill, Senior Fellow Emeritus, Center for Economic Security and Opportunity, Brookings Institution Moderator: Matt Weidinger, Rowe Scholar, American Enterprise…

June 18, 2024

A Unified Theory of Education

…education. In the early 1900s, progressives sought to bureaucratize K-12 into what historian David Tyack termed “the one best system.” In the 1920s, Oregon progressives (along with the anti-Catholic Ku…

June 18, 2024

Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility

…the one before it, that doesn’t seem to be the case. As they approach and pass age 40, Millennial men and women have higher median hourly wages than any previous…