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November 21, 2023
Defining Poverty Up
…a National Academies of Sciences panel who published a report earlier this year titled “An Updated Measure of Poverty: (Re)Drawing the Line.” The authors proposed that the Census Bureau’s supplemental poverty…
November 13, 2023
The Jobless AI Future Is Still a Long Way Off
…While technological unemployment may have failed to materialize over previous decades, the structure and nature of employment were utterly transformed. The MIT economist David Autor and coauthors found that the majority of…
November 13, 2023
How The IRS Discourages Boomer Charity
Americans like to call ourselves the most generous nation on earth — but charitable giving is on the decline. In 2022, it fell 3.4% (10.5% when adjusted for inflation) to fall…
November 11, 2023
Why is NYC Telling Teachers to Not Keep Kids Safe?
…it is often teachers (of the same race), as well as neighbors and family members who are doing the reporting. Which makes sense. Nationwide, Black children are twice as likely to be…
November 9, 2023
What Dems — And NYC — Can Learn From The GOP’s Bronx City Council Win
…said would be a “national embarrassment” for Democrats. Here’s what even a moderate Dem like Torres doesn’t understand: Kristy Marmorato is right about affordable housing. New York City needs new…
October 31, 2023
It Takes Two
…in the landmark Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, which overhauled the nation’s welfare system. Notably, employment of single mothers, especially the least skilled, rose sharply beginning in the early…
October 27, 2023
What Happened to the American Dream?
…of national well-being, such as life expectancy, fared worse” in America than elsewhere. But to the extent that broadly shared prosperity depends on having rising wealth to share and redistribute…
October 17, 2023
What Poor Children Need
…households with married parents, and work incentives in social spending programs. There is growing evidence that both sides are right. A new book-length report published by the US National Academy…
October 12, 2023
The GOP Should Be the Party of Parents
…both nationwide and in key battleground states, now trust Republicans more than Democrats on education — reversing a decades-old trend. The Democrats gave parents the impression that their children were…
October 12, 2023
Blue States Are Getting More Federal Money Than They Should
…cash welfare), the National School Lunch Program, water and sewer infrastructure, and education at the elementary and secondary levels. They include both “categorical” grants — that can be used for…