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May 18, 2025
Saved by Medicaid: New Evidence on Health Insurance and Mortality from the Universe of Low-Income Adults
…administrative tax data. Our methodology leverages state-level variation in the timing and adoption of Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and earlier waivers and adheres to a preregistered…
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
…loans, internet access, author talks, art exhibits, story time) Meeting essential community needs (e.g., food banks, job search support, services for unhoused individuals, free cell phones for youth) Civic engagement…
May 14, 2025
Graduation in the Time of COVID: The Weakened Relationship with Chronic Absenteeism
…educators to deliberately determine how important attendance ought to be. If we believe that attending school should be valuable and necessary to students’ success, it is time to make it…
May 13, 2025
Out of Work and On the Dole — Is Uncle Sam Contributing to Young Men’s Malaise?
…non-intact family.” He added, “In fact, these young men are 36% less likely to hold down a full-time job by the time they hit their mid-twenties.” When it comes to…
May 13, 2025
Common-Sense SNAP Reforms Included in House Agriculture Reconciliation Proposal
…Food Plan beyond inflation in future years. This will ensure that SNAP benefit costs are predictable and consistent across time, and that only Congress can adjust SNAP benefit levels. Another…
May 10, 2025
How Single Room Occupancies Could Be the Answer to NYC’s Housing Crisis
…just that in his City of Yes housing plan, but key legal obstacles remain. There was a time when SROs were an extensive and crucial part of the city’s residential…
May 7, 2025
Colleges Must Help Return Student Borrowers to Repayment
…not enrolled in school at the end of March, just 12 million (35 percent) were making their loan payments on time every month. That is down from 56 percent in…
May 7, 2025
Displacement by Design: How Bad Policy Made Housing Scarce, and How We Can Fix It
…the 1950s and the layering on of environmental regulations in the 1970s gave local opponents even more tools to block housing. Over time, these mechanisms have been weaponized to restrict…
May 7, 2025
Workforce Participation for Older Americans: Warning Lights Flashing
…the entirety of the current workforce shortfall—and then some. There was a time when the US possessed a general comparative advantage against the rest of the OECD with respect to…