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January 24, 2023
“Gig,” Contract, and Nontraditional Workers
A recurring theme of the Workforce Futures Initiative has been how little we know about the evolving needs of workers and businesses or even how the nation’s spatially and numerically…
January 7, 2023
Personal Responsibility, Not Victimhood, Is the Path to Success
…schools. Such an approach has substantial public support. A recent study by Nat Malkus at the American Enterprise Institute suggests that the success sequence is quite popular among parents as well as…
January 3, 2023
Systemic Disadvantage
…America’s poor. Unfortunately, our polarized political environment creates incentive structures that encourage contending parties to double down on racial categories in order to motivate core constituencies. In a 50-50 nation,…
December 9, 2022
“Automatic Stimulus”: How It Would Have Increased the Record Unemployment Benefits Paid During the Great Recession and Pandemic
…payments whenever state or national unemployment rates are above specific thresholds. Examining a key “automatic stimulus” proposal reveals it would have greatly expanded the amount and duration of unemployment benefits…
December 6, 2022
Fixing Our Child Welfare System to Help America’s Most Vulnerable Kids
…different corners of this field, Congress should committo creating a stronger and smarter child welfare system—one that puts the needs ofthe nation’s most vulnerable population first.Read the full report here….
November 28, 2022
Public School Instructional Offerings and Enrollment Changes: Evidence from Two Years After the Pandemic
Key Points Enrollment numbers in the first two pandemic school years demonstrate that district instructional offerings influence families’ enrollment decisions and that these effects were more pronounced in the second…
September 21, 2022
Lessons from the Unprecedented Fraud and Abuse of the Unemployment Benefits System During the Pandemic
…served on the staff of the House Committee on Ways and Means, including for 15 years as the staff director of its subcommittee with jurisdiction over the nation’s unemployment benefits…
August 30, 2022
Biden’s Student Loan Debt Plan is Driven by Politics, Not Economics
…will need in the coming election cycles to maintain any power in national politics. The fairness and the naked political ambition behind the plan are reason enough to object to…
August 10, 2022
A Failure to Respond: Public School Mask Mandates in the 2021–22 School Year
Key Points From September 2021 to late February 2022, school district mask mandates were in place for 61 percent of students in the US.During that period, Centers for Disease Control…
June 15, 2022
Second Time’s the Charm?
…both pro-family policy and the sustained reduction of poverty, but the nature of Romney’s approach forced hard choices and brought some differing assumptions to the surface. At the time, the…