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The Targeting of Place-Based Policies: The New Markets Tax Credit Versus Opportunity Zones
Abstract For a place-based policy to succeed, it must target the right areas—typically those with lower economic development and resident well-being. The U.S. has two major place-based tax policies: the…
Op-Ed
Which Men Cheat Least? Republican Husbands, Especially ‘Religious Wife Guys’
…more so than Barstool Conservatives, are the Republican husbands most likely to forswear all others. Brad Wilcox is a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Family Studies. Grant Bailey is…
Op-Ed
Affordable Housing—and No Tax Hike
…raising tax rates. As an added bonus, this approach would be effective in addressing what Mayor Mike Johnston describes as Denver’s “downtown doom loop.” LUV housing in the top five…
Op-Ed
JD Vance is Right: Reduce the Power of Big Foundations to Help Charity
…for those who have earned the funds being disbursed (e.g. John D. Rockefeller) to piggy banks for self-perpetuating boards and staffs with their own agendas. Better to tax those foundations…
Book
Doing Right by Kids: Leveraging Social Capital and Innovation to Increase Opportunity
…RACHIDI AND MATT WEIDINGER Chapter 6: “Place Belongs at the Center of an Opportunity Agenda,” JOHN W. LETTIERI Chapter 7: “Kids and Community Violence: Costs, Consequences, and Solutions,” JOSHUA CRAWFORD…
Article
America is Still Working
…Labor Will Bring 6-Day Pay,” New York Times, September 26, 1926, p. 1, https://www.nytimes.com/1926/09/26/archives/ford-establishes-a-5day-week-after-test-expects-spur-to-labor-will.html?searchResultPosition=36. [15] John Maynard Keynes, “Economic Possibilities for Our Grandchildren,” in Essays in Persuasion (New York: W….
Op-Ed
The Rise of ‘Marriage Deserts’ and What We Can Do About Them
What makes a marriage succeed or fail? To answer this question, psychologist John Gottman set up what came to be known as the “Love Lab” at the University of Washington…
Op-Ed
American Workers Are Doing Great. They Could Be Doing Even Better.
Editor’s note: This is one of a pair of essays responding to the Economic Innovation Group’s report, “The American Worker: Toward a New Consensus”, by Adam Ozimek, John Lettieri, and…
Op-Ed
Our Homeless Problem is Getting Out Of Control — What Can We Do?
The ongoing debate over fining individuals for sleeping in public spaces is currently being deliberated by the Supreme Court in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson. The case underscores a critical…
Multimedia
Indivar Dutta-Gupta and Scott Winship on the 60th Anniversary of LBJ’s “War on Poverty” on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal”
Indivar Dutta-Gupta and Scott Winship talked about the 60th anniversary of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Great Society” speech and the war on poverty….
Report
How States and Communities Can Strengthen Marriages
Family is the greatest source of social capital, providing the setting in which people grow, develop, and anchor their lives. Stable and healthy marriages are at the foundation of strong…
Op-Ed
A New Lost Generation: Disengaged, Aimless, and Adrift
…housebound, or to socialize. But as David Steiner, executive director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and a former New York State education commissioner, points out, smartphones and…