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June 28, 2023
Is ‘Bidenomics’ Even a Thing, Really?
…Times: Biden’s move reflects growing confidence inside the White House that he can gain more political credit for his sweeping economic legislation, which has pumped billions of dollars into infrastructure,…
June 27, 2023
House Republican Plan Penalizes Marriage
…to rely on welfare—soared during this time period.” Blank and other reviewers typically divided credit for improvements between welfare reform, expansions in the Earned Income Tax Credit, and the strong US economy. Rapidly plunging caseloads following the 1996 reforms spotlighted a…
June 26, 2023
Why There Are So Few Black Kids at Stuyvesant: Private Schools and Charter Schools Pull Top Students Out of the System
…it reflected differential test preparation never explaining why poorer Chinese parents are able to surmount this barrier. Moreover, as the New York Times last year reported, “Despite over $750,000 spent on test prep…
June 24, 2023
Family Affordability in America: A Story of Decline or Achievement?
…Some scholars conclude that income has generally kept pace with costs, suggesting that having a family has not become less affordable over time. Meanwhile, others conclude that costs have outpaced…
June 24, 2023
City Can No Longer Afford Life-Long Subsidies for Lucky NYCHA Tenants
…traditional public housing, including lifetime tenure for tenants. What’s more, it keeps prime property off the tax rolls at a time when New York City desperately needs revenue. The logic…
June 23, 2023
SNAP Can Improve Nutrition, Help Farmers, and Support the Environment
…not even consider the costs of new obesity drugs, which have proven effective but expensive, nor the indirect costs associated with obesity and diet-related disease such as lost work time and…
June 22, 2023
In An Age Of Low Social Trust, Stopping By Your Neighbor’s House Is Weird And Creepy
It was presaged during the pandemic: “Masks have also become so much more than mere barrier between germs and lungs,” the New York Times reported in April 2021. “They can keep that too-chatty neighbor…
June 22, 2023
Thanks to the Baby Bust, America Is Getting Older
…Times. “Fewer kids are being born.” This is true. Almost every year since 2007, fewer and fewer children have been born in the United States, down from 4.3 million in…
June 22, 2023
The Cost of Thriving Has Fallen: Correcting and Rejecting the American Compass Cost-of-Thriving Index
…was in 1985. When we include younger full-time workers excluded by Cass and full-time female workers, COTI falls by nearly one week before accounting for taxes and by 7.5 weeks…
June 21, 2023
The Bad Math Behind Economic Doomerism
…full-time male workers. We first improve on Cass’ cost estimates by correcting conceptual and measurement errors and using better source data. For instance, while Cass uses the average sticker price…