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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…

January 24, 2025

The Targeting of Place-Based Policies: The New Markets Tax Credit Versus Opportunity Zones

…poverty rates, low median income and weak labor markets. However, OZs tend to attract more investment in areas with higher preexisting private investment, often located in prosperous counties and high-growth…

January 16, 2025

Should We Believe the Economic Data or Americans’ “Lyin’” Eyes? The Answer Is Yes.

…United States. Inflation-adjusted median family income is at an all-time high. Median wealth is, likewise, at an all-time high. Only in 2020 and 2021 were the median weekly earnings of full-time male and female workers higher. The unemployment…

January 14, 2025

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January 14, 2025

The Pornography Industry Should Not Be Allowed This Much Access to Our Children

…of Sociology at the University of Virginia, Brian J. Willoughby is a Professor in the School of Family Life at Brigham Young University and a Fellow of the Wheatley Institute,…

December 31, 2024

Farewell, President Stimulus

…stimulus bill as president in 2021, Biden is more closely associated with partisan stimulus policy than any other politician. And the disastrous political consequences of his stimulus-law failures may prove…

December 29, 2024

Why Rent Regulation Remains So Hard to Undo in NYC

…federal New York City Housing and Vacancy Survey reported a vacancy rate of just 1.4%, “a stark contrast to the 4.54 rate in 2021”.  Over the same period, median monthly rent rose from…

December 20, 2024

Fixing Inflation, Right-Sizing the Federal Government

…breaks in the series between 2013 and 2014 and between 2017 and 2018, the 2023 median would have been $99,028, compared with $98,964 in 2000.) Instead, today’s Census Bureau figures,…

December 17, 2024

Make America Smart Again: The Jeopardy Test for Graduation

…Wasteland or the novel War and Peace? These are not trivia questions — the answers show preparation for understanding American race relations, the ennui of contemporary civilization, and the history of Russian warfare….