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March 4, 2024

Social conservatives who care about marriage should think twice about a “per-child” refundable Child Tax Credit

…benefit parameters that took effect October 1, 2023. Shelter costs are assumed to be $1,146 monthly for a single parent without children (median gross rent for a one-bedroom apartment in…

By Kevin Corinth

March 1, 2024

How the Children’s Bureau Lost Its Way

…On March 31, 1905, Chicagoans Jane Addams and Mary McDowell joined Lillian D. Wald, founder of New York’s Henry Street Settlement, and Edward T. Devine, editor of the journal Charities,…

By Naomi Schaefer Riley

February 23, 2024

After Milton’s MBTA Housing Defeat, The Way Forward Is With Persuasion, Not Mandates

…Morever, this should not be framed in racial terms: 16 percent of Milton’s residents are Black, and 15 percent are Asian American, Latino, or multiracial. There’s another way to get residents…

By Howard Husock

February 22, 2024

Chronic Absenteeism Could Be the Biggest Problem Facing Schools Right Now

…7 percent to 15 percent among Asian students, from 11 percent to 24 percent among white students, from 16 percent to 36 percent among Hispanic students, and from 18 percent…

By Frederick M. Hess | Nat Malkus

February 22, 2024

Education and the Right

…policy. Meanwhile, AEI’s Ian Rowe and Secretary Guidera relied on their experiences in educational leadership to explore how conservative educational ideas can play out in practice. The event concluded with…

By Ian Rowe | Frederick M. Hess | Matthew Continetti | Michael Q. McShane | Ramesh Ponnuru

February 12, 2024

Millennials Are Doing Better than You Probably Think

…calculating the percent change in median income from each generation to the next. The goal: to gauge economic mobility by determining whether each generation as a whole has surpassed the…

By James Pethokoukis

February 8, 2024

Another Flawed Analysis Shows that Single Mothers are Highly Sensitive to Changes in Work Incentives

…and consistent with elasticity estimates in Bastian’s own work. Bastian begins by calculating the mean across working single mothers of their average tax rate, doing so in every year from…

By Scott Winship

February 7, 2024

Child Tax Credit Bill Would Increase Marriage Penalties for Working Single Mothers

…SNAP benefit parameters that took effect starting October 1, 2023, and we assume shelter costs of $1,146 per month for a single parent without children (median gross rent for 1…

By Kevin Corinth | Scott Winship

February 6, 2024

Research by a Top Biden Administration Economist Reinforces the Importance of Work Incentives in the Child Tax Credit and the Safety Net

…to quantify this sensitivity, and Bastian and others have unsuccessfully tried to argue that that is far too high. (In truth, the research of even several of these critics, Bastian…

By Scott Winship

January 21, 2024

Portland’s Encampment Kids

…on the steering wheel, my Hispanic Uber driver asked with exasperation, “What did they think was going to happen?” Portland can seem dystopian. A naked homeless man in a wheelchair…