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Commentary
Young Men’s Earnings over the Long Run – An Update
…that they are less about the economy or economic policy failing us and more about how the individual choices we have made as the nation has grown richer have altered…
Working Paper
What Can We Learn from Guaranteed Basic Income Pilots in the United States? Evidence on Employment Effects
…and substantial attrition. Even the highest quality pilots were conducted during the COVID-19 pandemic or soon thereafter, and may not generalize to a permanent, universal, nationwide GBI, implemented during current…
Blog Post
States Are Taking the Reins on College Accountability
…approach is necessarily the final blueprint. That is precisely why they matter. For two decades, policymakers have been moving toward outcomes-based accountability. The 2006 Spellings Commission elevated performance and transparency as national…
Op-Ed
The Democrats’ Fraud Problem
…take—from the community. The Center for Immigration Studies estimates that 81 percent of Somali-headed families in Minnesota use at least one welfare program (vs. 21 percent of native-headed households). Therefore, the first response of…
Report
Closing Detroit’s Appraisal Gap: A Market-Based Strategy to Revive Vacant Neighborhoods—Lessons for Struggling Cities Across the Nation
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Article
The End of Work? Not Yet—Maybe Not Ever
…The robots may indeed grow capable of doing almost everything. That doesn’t mean we’ll have nothing left to do. I hope that message makes it into the emerging national debate….
Article
Capital Gains Rules on Home Sales and Senior Homeowner Lock In
…at death. The filtering down process would apply to the move-up buyers purchasing the homes freed up by the capital gains tax holiday. Nationally, about 1.9 million and 1.4 million…
Op-Ed
What Harvard’s Raj Chetty Overlooks About Upward Mobility
…long-term economic gains for children. Any federal policy — in this case, the Clinton-era HOPE VI program to demolish crime-ridden public housing such as Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes, the nation’s largest —…
Blog Post
Trump Houses Are a Good Idea—If
…houses on small lots that are naturally affordable as a result. The context is this. Starter homes have become scarce in America. Small houses on small lots were once common—for…
Op-Ed
Snow Excuses
…students got out of the habit of regular attendance, and schools now need to work with parents to reestablish expectations and set things right. Just last week, my colleague Nat Malkus, perhaps the nation’s…
Commentary
Medicaid’s Multiple Roles
Matt Weidinger’s December 2025 commentary argued persuasively that complexity has become an impediment to rational reform of the nation’s safety net. By approving scores of new programs across several decades,…
Op-Ed
Progress on Absenteeism Is Stalling. What Can We Do About It?
More than five years after the pandemic threw schools off course, the latest evidence suggests that progress toward solving the nation’s attendance problem is slowing down well short of the…