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May 26, 2023
The Size and Census Coverage of the U.S. Homeless Population
…and the coverage of new microdata sources that are designed to be nationally representative. We compare two restricted data sources largely unused to study homelessness, the 2010 Census and American…
May 24, 2023
Don’t Be So Shocked That People Still Want Marriage and Children
…are natural desires. More specifically, raising children within a loving, monogamous, committed relationship is what most people want. Single mothers living together for support and camaraderie are a plan B,…
May 23, 2023
Will Biden Cross a Line on Poverty?
A new report from the National Academy of Sciences seeks to redefine poverty. The NAS presents the effort as a matter of science: “An accurate measure of poverty is necessary to fully…
May 23, 2023
An Unexpected Role for AI in the Workplace
…difference between failure and long-term success on the job—are in the domain of tacit knowledge. They are second-nature qualities that are rooted in early childhood and develop slowly based on…
May 23, 2023
Public Housing Should Have Work Rules, Too
…contrast, a handful of public-housing authorities—including Chicago and Atlanta, two of the nation’s biggest—have had work requirements for more than a decade. They’ve been among a small group of local…
May 23, 2023
Biden Courts Another Mortgage Crisis
…to the 2008 financial crisis. Remember when in 1994 Fannie Mae committed to “transforming the nation’s housing finance system to make it accessible to everyone”? To quote Yogi Berra, “It’s like déjà…
May 19, 2023
House Bill Makes Room for Improvements to SNAP
This week, the House Appropriations Committee marked up a spending bill for the US Department of Agriculture and related agencies, which includes many of the nation’s largest safety net and nutrition programs—most…
May 17, 2023
Is President Biden About to Triangulate Democrats on Welfare Work Requirements?
…than half (54%)” of the apparent increase in the national TANF program’s work rate from 2013 to 2015, and work rate increases in the past decade “stemmed mostly” from such…
May 17, 2023
The Wrong Immigration at the Wrong Time
…worker labor shortages, but could potentially have adverse effects on native-born workers, particularly Black men. During the pandemic, the employment rate for young Black men increased dramatically. For Black teenage…
May 12, 2023
Follow the Money as Hochul Floats Tobacco Ban While Pushing Legal Marijuana
…$5.85 — is the nation’s highest. It’s led to declining adult use. Yet even if no cigarettes were sold legally in New York the state will continue to receive a…