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March 3, 2025

It’s Time for Time Limits on Public Housing

…significantly, the agency is considering implementing time limits and work requirements for tenants of public and subsidized housing.  Although we should expect howls of protest from tenant “advocates” as cruel and draconian,

February 28, 2025

Trump Stopped Biden’s Plan to Force DEI on Local Communities

…upon them to address such wide-ranging goals as “environmental justice,” “climate resilience,” as well as “to better serve lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) youth experiencing homelessness…

February 27, 2025

How Progressive Policy Distorted the Housing Market

…of Donald Trump voters is related to progressive housing policy’s collateral damage. Most of Stuck, however, is about how we got into this mess. Appelbaum’s skill as a historian shines here….

February 25, 2025

We Replaced Families with Uncle Sam. DOGE Must Make the Right Choices When Cutting

…government power back to smaller units: families, communities and states.    The Center for Christian Virtue and the Institute for Family Studies recently collaborated on a new study called “The Hope…

February 25, 2025

Ohio Ranks Only 29th In The Family Structure Index

Ohio ranks 29th in family strength, according to a new report from the Institute for Family Studies and the Center for Christian Virtue. The Hope and a Future report spotlights the state of Ohio…

February 24, 2025

What Do You Call an Automatic Stabilizer that Doesn’t Shrink When Conditions Improve? The Biden Food Stamps Blowout

…savings could be deployed elsewhere—or used to stem burgeoning federal debt and deficits. Opponents will of course regard any such changes as a “draconian cut.” But the longer view suggests…

February 21, 2025

Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 2025

What is the American dream? It is a “better, richer, and happier life for all our citizens of every rank,” in the words of James Truslow Adams, the historian who…

February 20, 2025

The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated

…David Grusky, Maximilian Hell, Robert Manduca, Jimmy Narang, “The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940.” Replication files available at https://opportunityinsights.org/data/?geographic_level=0&topic=0&paper_id=546#resource-listing. ‍ These results were the basis for…

February 4, 2025

The Family First Act Would Expand Net Income Tax Refunds to Higher Income Families

…or negative federal income tax liability. Married parents with two children could receive a net refund from the federal government until their income exceeds $94,000, well beyond the median US household income…

February 4, 2025

Snip, Snip: Spending Cuts Are Coming 

…on dollar figures alone. Opponents are already decrying “draconian” cuts. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) has criticized “massive tax breaks for billionaires and wealthy corporations” alongside policies that would make “working families and…