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Op-Ed
One of the Worst Laws in America Deserves a Hearing Before the Supreme Court
…as the Reyeltses did. The act also created a higher evidentiary standard for child maltreatment, meaning Native American kids have to suffer more abuse before a child welfare agency intervenes…
Op-Ed
Chicago’s “Disappearing Middle Class” Can Be Found in Its Proliferating Upper Middle-Class Neighborhoods
…income distribution as rising insecurity and declining living standards. Unbeknownst to us, a perfect example of this misinterpretation appeared a week before we published our report in Chicago magazine. The…
COSM Commentary
Understanding the Recent Declines in SNAP Participation
…varies widely by state, and year-over-year changes in the number of SNAP participants stands out in a few states. In fact, almost one-third of the national decline (4.3 million or…
Article
Why First-Time Buyer Age Isn’t Rising—Even as Housing Gets Less Affordable
…using Census and American Community Survey microdata that better captures individual outcomes than standard household statistics. By this measure, ownership rates have declined sharply across the board. Among adults ages…
Op-Ed
Zohran Mamdani’s ACS Choice Puts ‘Racial Equity’ Above Keeping NYC Kids Safe and Alive
…to create alternative licensing processes for relatives to become foster parents without having to meet the same standards required for non-relatives. The idea was that children would be able to…
Op-Ed
How Much AI-Driven Productivity Growth Do We Want?
…living standards, it is tempting to argue that we should want productivity to grow as rapidly as possible. Rising living standards mean new and better medicines, safer workplaces, longer lives,…
Blog Post
Refocusing the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation on Achieving Deep Cost Reductions
…process for evaluating CMMI-tested policies against a standard of “budget neutrality” and no demonstrable harm to the quality of care provided to program beneficiaries. Beyond those two considerations, CMMI is…
Commentary
Assessing Duplicative Federal Benefit Programs and Preventing Abuse
…that very strict standard is hard to square with real-world questions about whether 27 education and training programs or 17 housing programs are all really necessary, or some might be…
Op-Ed
No, It Doesn’t Make Sense to Give Cash to a Drug-Abusing Parent
…were unsafe. Of those, more than two-thirds of parents had refused the services offered. Are we holding such parents to unreasonable standards of “good parenting”? If only we could ask…
Op-Ed
Don’t Tax the Public Housing Poor Like They’re Rich
…deal. Public and voucher housing tenants need to pay no more than 30% of their income, a widely accepted standard of the new buzzword affordability. But the rule has a serious unintended…
Commentary
Summary and Analysis of the “Stop Unemployment Fraud Act”
…as providing “Work search requirements for claimants collecting state and Federal UC benefits.” Despite those standards, a recent comparison of state laws indicates significant state variance in work search, including…
Op-Ed
Reforming Health Care
…for opportunities to improve efficiency. For both groupings, two changes would allow the market to work as it should. First, there needs to be standardization. When a patient is deciding on…