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President Trump and Institutional Investors in Single-Family Rentals
…home purchases could eventually fill the existing home gap, these homes take time to build. As a result, institutional investors would likely hold onto their existing portfolios to keep portfolio…
Op-Ed
AI Changes NOTHING About What Students Need to Learn
…adults, and autonomous human beings. Advances in technology, even one as staggering as AI, don’t change that. This is a timeless lesson—one we’re apparently obligated to learn time and again….
Report
The Middle Class Is Shrinking Because of a Booming Upper-Middle Class
…we find that the “core” middle class has shrunk, but only because more families have become upper-middle class over time. The upper-middle class boomed from 10 percent of families in…
Op-Ed
To restore hope for families in poverty, let states lead on welfare reform
…low-income households deserve help from their fellow Americans when times are tough. But that help should not inadvertently trap people in poverty and government dependence by disincentivizing healthy, working-age adults…
Commentary
The Policy Lessons from Minnesota’s Massive Welfare Fraud
…who deserve serious jail time. But it means that, unless addressed in Washington, the same flaws will continue to leave welfare programs across the nation open to abuse. Not Just…
Blog Post
The House GOP Plays It Safe on Health Care
…drafting of the original ACA law, which led in time to a more costly workaround (“silver loading”), which drove up premiums and subsidies to offset the loss of CSR funds….
Commentary
Trump Family Policy Fails to Deliver at the One-Year Mark
…cannot access until 18 years later, would meaningfully change would-be parents’ calculus. At best, the benefit may move a small number of births forward in time so that children can…
Op-Ed
How Misreading Somali Poverty Led Minnesota into Its Largest Welfare Scandal
…2019 investigation by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune that labeled Minnesota “one of the most racially inequitable states” — a conclusion based on a poverty rate four times higher for Blacks than…
Article
Has Marriage Fallen Because Young Adults Can’t Afford Homes?
…of Realtors, the median age of homebuyers has risen over time, from 31 in 1981 to 59 by 2025. Among first-time homebuyers that increase has been smaller, but still from…
Op-Ed
A Bipartisan Step Toward Smarter College Accountability
…to underwrite these programs. The new law changes that. For the first time, all institutions and programs using federal aid will face real consequences if the earnings of more than…
Blog Post
AI Has Come for K–12 Education
…use AI to make education better.” Adaptation in the age of AI is one job schools shouldn’t drag their feet on. The workforce argument is weak tea for New York Times columnist…
Commentary
What To Do About Benefit Cliffs?
…substantial effort, which takes time, as anyone who monitors Congress will recognize. We believe that a comprehensive fix is ultimately required, and that the federal government must lead it because…