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January 7, 2025
Tax Policy Should Prioritize Shoring Up the Family
…EITC made it more appealing to choose work over welfare). However, reviving the two-parent family was another explicit goal of welfare reform. While the nation has made some limited progress toward this…
January 7, 2025
Ozempic and Your Community
…community-based GLP-1 experiment. Bowling Green, Kentucky, now known as the Ozempic capital of the country, has something of a natural experiment going on as a large portion of the city is…
January 3, 2025
Thanks, Joe Manchin
During transitions of power, it’s easy to fixate on a new administration’s nominees and legislative agenda while losing sight of those exiting the political stage. But as the new Congress begins…
January 2, 2025
AI Will Have a Major Impact on Labor Markets. Here’s How the US Can Prepare
…a period of high-velocity technological change requires new types of economic data to help all players make the best possible decisions. Our nation already invests substantially in understanding national labor…
December 31, 2024
Farewell, President Stimulus
…the severity of the Great Recession became more apparent, President Barack Obama and Vice President Biden worked with Democratic congressional leaders to craft what … Read more in National Review here….
December 29, 2024
Why Rent Regulation Remains So Hard to Undo in NYC
…some 400,000 regulated units — notes, the current system “inhibits the natural flow and movement of a normal housing market.” There can be ill-effects on housing quality too, economists are finding,…
December 20, 2024
Fixing Inflation, Right-Sizing the Federal Government
…a 10 percent reduction in the growth of the national debt. Moreover, since 2018, the Internal Revenue Service has used the chained CPI to update tax parameters each year, generating…
December 17, 2024
Make America Smart Again: The Jeopardy Test for Graduation
…last month to abolish a similar graduation requirement, the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System, whose adoption in 1994 coincided with that state consistently becoming the nation’s top National Assessment of Education Progress performer,…
December 17, 2024
Industrial Policy and Deficits: Dark Clouds for Democratic Capitalism
…their supply is diversified away from adversarial nations or geopolitical hotspots. Coordinating with allies would allow production to be relocated to nations that are best situated to produce. It is…
December 11, 2024
The Often Overlooked Link Between Drug Use and Family Decline
…to a recent study, the number of Black people and Native Americans in this category has been growing while the number of white people has been going down. A study published in…