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Families Slip Back Into Poverty After Pandemic-Era Child Tax Credit Expires
…56 percent decline in child poverty. Joyce James leads The Middleburg Institute. Joyce James, Founder, The Middleburg Institute: Did you all know about the child tax credit? Amna Nawaz: A…
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Caitlin Clark and Civil Society
…watched basketball’s inventor James Naismith teach the game. Wade brought the game back to the Hoosier state, where it put down deep roots. On a visit in 1925, Naismith himself…
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Millennials Are Doing Better than You Probably Think
“Each generation is worse off than the one before.” It’s one of the primary tenets of the notion that American capitalism has failed and that we live in the final…
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When It Comes to the State of the American Economy, Let’s Keep It Real
Here we go again. An oft-repeated economic claim on social media is that most Americans lack the means to cover a $400 emergency expense. More evidence that most of us…
Op-Ed
Billionaire-Built Cities Would Be Better Than Nothing
…the high-water mark of racial segregation, a private developer named James Rouse planned an integrated city in nearby Columbia, Md. Columbia is not perfect, but it remains racially diverse, and according to data…
Op-Ed
Biden’s Even Worse Version of “Free College”
The Biden administration has abolished the federal student-loan program, at least if a “student-loan program” is one in which students borrow money and then eventually repay it. What’s being erected…
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A Valuable New Perspective on America’s War on Poverty
…an Absolute Full-Income Poverty Measure” by Richard V. Burkhauser (Cornell University), Kevin Corinth (University of Chicago), James Elwell (Joint Committee on Taxation), and Jeff Larrimore (Federal Reserve Board). They try…
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Evaluating the Success of the War on Poverty since 1963 Using an Absolute Full-Income Poverty Measure
Abstract We evaluate progress in the War on Poverty as President Lyndon B. Johnson defined it, which established a 20% baseline poverty rate and adopted an absolute standard. While the…
Op-Ed
It Takes Two
…matter. Furthermore, somewhat undermining her case, Kearney notes that research by Nobel laureate James Heckman has found that Denmark’s more expansive welfare state does not appear to translate into higher…
Op-Ed
What Happened to the American Dream?
…from medicine to nuclear power. The recent book by the Reaganite economic writer Jim Pethokoukis, “The Conservative Futurist,” makes an extended version of this argument, tracing our era of stagnation…
Article
The Two-Parent Advantage
…and the educational, social, and economic welfare of America’s children. For instance, a new report from the Institute for Family Studies by Wendy Wang, Spencer James, Thomas Murray, and me shows that the…
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Do Two Parents Matter More Than Ever?
…Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies. Wendy Wang is the director of research at the Institute for Family Studies. Spencer James is associate professor of family life at…