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May 29, 2025
How Non-disabled Medicaid Recipients Without Children Spend Their Time
…work or caring for family members? I answer these questions using the American Time Use Survey (ATUS), a nationally representative survey used extensively in government and academic research, which provides…
May 27, 2025
The Surprising Role of Large Developers in Solving the Housing Crunch
Against the odds—and conventional wisdom—the nation’s largest home builders have engineered a dramatic shift toward serving first-time homebuyers (FTBs). New data from the AEI Housing Center show that in 2024,…
May 19, 2025
The Case for Shifting More Welfare Costs to States
…hit state budgets hard at a time when state finances are already highly strained.” That view ignores the findings of a recent fiscal survey of states conducted by the National…
May 18, 2025
Saved by Medicaid: New Evidence on Health Insurance and Mortality from the Universe of Low-Income Adults
Abstract We examine the causal effect of health insurance on mortality using the universe of low-income adults, a dataset of 37 million individuals identified by linking the 2010 Census to…
May 15, 2025
The Pandemic Is Over. It’s Time for Schools to Get the Message.
More than five years after the covid-19 pandemic began, the havoc it wreaked on American students and schools is alarmingly clear by nearly every measure. But there is one glaring…
May 14, 2025
Libraries Are Doing the Work—Let’s Fund Them Accordingly
…national public health crisis. In his Advisory, he stated that when he first took office in 2014, he didn’t recognize loneliness as a public health threat—until a cross-country listening tour…
May 14, 2025
Graduation in the Time of COVID: The Weakened Relationship with Chronic Absenteeism
…weakened by about half during the pandemic. More likely a side effect of pandemic-era changes than a deliberate policy choice, the national graduation rate might have been three points lower—amounting…
May 13, 2025
Out of Work and On the Dole — Is Uncle Sam Contributing to Young Men’s Malaise?
…We should note that national surveys, such as the Current Population Survey, tend to underreport the share of adults on such programs. To Finley’s point, the share of young men receiving one…
May 10, 2025
How Single Room Occupancies Could Be the Answer to NYC’s Housing Crisis
…“The Housing Maintenance Code does not allow housing with shared facilities as-of-right.” As attorney Patrick Sullivan, who follows housing law for the law firm Kramer, Levin, Natalie’s and Frankel, explains:…
May 7, 2025
Displacement by Design: How Bad Policy Made Housing Scarce, and How We Can Fix It
…priced out. This not only addresses immediate affordability, but also triggers “filtering”—the natural process where higher-income families move into newer homes, freeing up older, more affordable units for others further…