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April 8, 2024
The $1,000 Tax Hike on Middle-Class Families
When Americans file their taxes in the coming weeks, one group will be singled out for a tax hike: middle-class families with children. This April, a family with three children making…
April 8, 2024
We Still Don’t Know How Much Taxpayers Lost Due to Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Fraud
…concentrated during the program’s first few months when $600-per-week PUC supplements far outweighed guaranteed minimum PUA payments averaging around $165 per week nationwide. Omitting that enormous figure would do more than diminish…
April 5, 2024
What’s Wrong with the US Economy? Anything?
…and adopting a go-slow approach on AI regulation. Sorry to be a Debbie Downer about debt and deficits, but CBO predicts the national debt will nearly double to $48.3 trillion by 2034,…
April 3, 2024
School Absenteeism Has Become A Big Problem. But We Can Do Something About It.
…Nat Malkus, who’s tracked the numbers on chronic absenteeism in his widely-referenced Return to Learn Tracker, has reported the situation is even worse in the nation’s poorest and low-achieving communities. In Los Angeles,…
March 21, 2024
Sugary Beverage Consumption Among SNAP Recipients
…can tell us about the foods that SNAP households report typically consuming. The National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), an annual survey conducted by the CDC, asks respondents about their health…
March 19, 2024
Conservatives Distrust Higher Ed—But Still Need Degrees
…confidence in higher ed dropped a whopping 37 percentage points, nearly double the national average, and four times the dropoff for Democrats. Many on the right now hold as self-evident…
March 11, 2024
How Many Forms of “Wage Insurance” Do We Need, Exactly?
…claiming the credit and effectively reviving work-free welfare checks. That goes against the very nature of a tax credit such as the CTC, which is, by definition, intended to offset…
March 7, 2024
Growing Congressional Dysfunction Will Worsen Our Fiscal Problems
…notice. One of the few significant bills to clear the House this session is a bipartisan tax bill that advanced only because it includes apparent savings sufficient to cover the cost of its temporary tax cuts and benefit increases. Such politically acceptable savings provisions are naturally in…
March 1, 2024
How the Children’s Bureau Lost Its Way
…look after the Nation’s child crop?” It seems like a lovely sentiment, but the nation’s child crop is considerably larger than it was back then and the percentage of children…
February 29, 2024
Recalling Pandemic Lessons on “Self-Certifying” Eligibility
…programs to allow beneficiaries to self-certify their eligibility. That guidance directly affects a handful of programs with limited funding that offer a variety of employment-related services. Naturally the department argues…