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July 18, 2023
…to set aside as much as 57% of their gross income for debt payments, which severely limits how much money a borrower can set aside for a rainy day fund….
July 17, 2023
Chairman Bennet, Ranking Member Thune, and distinguished members of the Subcommittee on Taxation and IRS Oversight, thank you for the opportunity to testify on the Child Tax Credit (CTC). My…
May 26, 2023
…though racial gaps in achieving middle class status still exist after following the success sequence, as Richard Reeves observed in cross-sectional data, the vast majority of black and Hispanic young…
May 23, 2023
…understand how the economy is performing across all segments of the population and to assess the effects of government policies on communities and families.” But the report’s real purpose could…
May 3, 2023
…socioeconomic diversity across different groups of religious adherents. Some research has investigated the relationship between the prevalence of certain religious traditions—such as mainline and evangelical Protestantism—and specific indicators of social…
May 1, 2023
…receives SNAP. Both datasets are cross-sectional, meaning the results reflect the SNAP caseload at points in time, not necessarily the same individuals over time. For our analyses, we grouped SNAP…
April 28, 2023
…assess trends in the various components of social capital (or to consider their distribution across Americans at a point in time). Since Robert Putnam first popularized the concept of social…
February 13, 2023
…after President James K. Polk announced the gold discovery to Congress, California’s non-indigenous population jumped from about 10,000 to 255,000. Before the end of the boom, more than 300,000 people from across…
November 17, 2022
…Panel Ross Douthat, Nonresident Fellow, AEI Kay Coles James, Secretary of the Commonwealth, Virginia Maya MacGuineas, President, Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget Moderator: Ryan Streeter, Director of Domestic Policy,…
June 15, 2022
…Democrats who controlled both houses of Congress and the presidency were uninterested in cross-partisan policy-making and fully immersed instead in their ill-fated “Build Back Better” fiasco. So, conservatives could let…