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January 3, 2023
Systemic Disadvantage
…8.6 million. Thus whites, by sheer weight of numbers, absorb the bulk of programs like the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. At the same time, the relative intensity of black poverty…
January 3, 2023
Perspective: Women Are More Likely to Make Friends at Work Than Men. Here’s Why That Matters
…of these occupations are also disproportionately male. It’s fair to question how much women are dedicating their time and energy to these pursuits out of their own volition, because of…
January 1, 2023
Perspective: Is your boss on your DOS? How remote work monitoring can work
…time with families who experienced death than they were for spending time with patients and families while the individual was still alive. In essence, monitoring incentives encouraged chaplains to leave…
December 15, 2022
The Myth of Income Stagnation
…was over three times faster from 1990 to 2019 than it was from 1979, the year CBO’s data begin, to 1990. The BLS’s wage data go back further. They show…
December 14, 2022
Bringing Home the Bacon: Have Trends in Men’s Pay Weakened the Traditional Family?
…They argue men have become less “marriageable” over time. Based on marriageability thresholds set at what typical young sole-breadwinning fathers earned in 1979, young men are at least as marriageable…
December 9, 2022
“Automatic Stimulus”: How It Would Have Increased the Record Unemployment Benefits Paid During the Great Recession and Pandemic
…The COVID-19 pandemic saw unemployment claims reach a high of over 33 million in June 2020—over two and a half times the prior record set during the Great Recession. From…
November 28, 2022
Public School Instructional Offerings and Enrollment Changes: Evidence from Two Years After the Pandemic
…school year, there was large heterogeneity in how districts reopened.4 Some districts opened by offering all students full-time in-person instruction, others offered in-person instruction for some grades or part of the…
November 17, 2022
American Renewal: Launching a New Conservative Policy Book with Paul Ryan and Angela Rachidi
…mediating institutions fraying, debt soaring, and inflation rising in the post-pandemic era, now is the time for policymakers to act—to renew the social contract and place our government programs on…
September 30, 2022
Off Track: An Assessment of Wisconsin’s Early Care and Learning System for Young Children
Preface Raising children, as can be fully appreciated only after you’ve done it, takes place in real time. They eat, sleep and grow whether you’re ready or not. So as…
August 30, 2022
Biden’s Student Loan Debt Plan is Driven by Politics, Not Economics
…could be. But the cutoff, $125,000 for individuals, means that borrowers earning three times the median income in the United States are still eligible for this giveaway. More important, the plan delivers…