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January 19, 2024
Ninety Percent Student Attendance Won’t Solve Chronic Absenteeism
…National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) released data under the headline, “Public School Leaders Report 90 Percent Average Daily Student Attendance Rate in November 2023.” With nationwide chronic absenteeism rates of about…
January 17, 2024
Achieving Housing Abundance Through State and Local Land Use and Zoning Reform
…would extend eligibility for subsidized units tenants earning below the area median. On a combined basis the two credits would expand eligibility to about three quarters of the nation’s renters….
January 17, 2024
A Midwest State of Mind
…after I moved to the Midwest, Commentary Magazine asked me to participate in a symposium on “the national prospect.” My assignment was to write about what it looked like from the nation’s…
January 17, 2024
Tax Extenders Package Would Cut the Child Tax Credit’s Annual Work Requirement in Half
…what happened when Hurricane Katrina struck in mid-2005 and Congress allowed affected adults to use 2004 earnings to claim the EITC and CTC. Lawmakers applied the same logic nationwide during the pandemic emergency. In December 2020, they created a “temporary special rule” letting individuals use 2019 earnings to claim the EITC and CTC for 2020….
January 17, 2024
Congress, Don’t Legislate a Takeover of the Nation’s Rental Housing Market
…two credits would expand eligibility to about three quarters of the nation’s renters. Both programs would offer generous federal government subsidies for building new apartments. Such a massive expansion of the state…
January 16, 2024
Dry January Should Be Drug Free
There is nothing at all objectionable about the Dry (or semi-dry) January idea. The National Institute on Alcoholism reports that there were some 13,000 drunk-driving-related deaths in 2021—and that, overall, some 140,000…
January 15, 2024
The Economy Is Good. Why Do Consumers Feel So Bad?
…now waned, and many experts are predicting that the Federal Reserve efforts to rein in inflation will succeed without necessarily causing the nation to dip into recession. Additionally, a study conducted by…
January 12, 2024
Small-Dollar Demonstration Projects Can’t Hide That a National Guaranteed Income Program Would Cost Trillions
…would arise if such programs operated at a national level, as proponents intend. This report reviews the costs of some recent proposals to operate such national guaranteed income programs, which…
January 12, 2024
Congress Shouldn’t Expand Welfare in Return for Corporate Tax Cuts
…the Child Tax Credit and reduced revenue from the business-tax provisions must be fully offset by reduced spending elsewhere. The national debt recently surpassed $34 trillion. Now is not the…
January 12, 2024
What is the Utah “Family Miracle”?
…national media — from NPR to The New York Times — it led other states across the nation, from Arkansas to Texas, to also take legislative steps to reign in Big Tech and protect…