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August 29, 2024
Kamala Harris Wants to Turn the Tax Code into a Mammoth ATM
…tax credits for lower-income households leading the way. That naturally doesn’t include the 150 bills this Congress has proposed creating new or expanded tax credits, or Harris’s 2020 proposal to send $2,000-per-month…
August 28, 2024
Race, Ethnicity, and Measurement Error
Abstract Large literatures have analyzed racial and ethnic disparities in economic outcomes and access to the safety net. For such analyses that rely on survey data, it is crucial that…
August 28, 2024
Some Context Behind JD Vance’s Child Tax Credit Comments
Recently, GOP Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance said on Face the Nation “We should expand the child tax credit… I’d love to see a child tax credit that’s $5,000 per…
August 27, 2024
Poverty Isn’t Neglect, and Money Isn’t Always the Answer
…of the maltreatment deaths in this country. The American public seems to understand that neglect is about more than just poverty. A nationally representative poll conducted by the Bipartisan Policy…
August 26, 2024
Vouching for Self-Sufficiency
…that “voucher receipt increases violent crime, and that this increase is driven by men.” The voucher program is not going away. It now outstrips public housing projects nationwide as the…
August 23, 2024
Can Kamala Harris Learn the Housing Lessons from Her Own History?
…to help make payments. California’s bungalows were part of a nationwide trend of naturally occurring affordable housing: row houses in Philadelphia and Baltimore, three-decker houses in New England, and two-flats…
August 16, 2024
The Harris Campaign’s Foolish Down-Payment-Assistance Scheme
On the surface, Kamala Harris’s proposal to provide $25,000 in down-payment assistance to first-time homebuyers looks to be an incentive for upward mobility. Historically, homeownership has been the foundation for wealth creation for…
August 15, 2024
Women Want More Children Than They’re Having. America Can Do More to Help
…national conversation, with good reason. The fertility rate has hit a record low in the United States, with the average American woman now expected to have just 1.6 births in her lifetime,…
August 6, 2024
Trump’s Tax Law Diminished Incentives for Charitable Giving, But We Can Fix It
…of medical research which the National Institutes for Health shies away from (think mRNA). Maintaining the charitable deduction and extending it to a wider economic range of taxpayers should be…
August 5, 2024
Are Opportunity Zones an Effective Place-Based Policy?
…that suffer from disadvantage and underinvestment, which, at least in theory, could bolster economic growth of the nation as a whole and reduce strain on public benefit programs. The breadth…