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January 9, 2024
Post-Pandemic Recovery for America’s Prime Age Labor Force: A Tale of Two Sexes
…stay, in Fed-speak, “at or near full employment.” Even so, there were important divergences in employment trends within the overall civilian workforce. As an aging Western society, America’s civilian 55+…
January 2, 2024
Billionaire-Built Cities Would Be Better Than Nothing
…off: The schools-ranking website Niche lists it as one of the best U.S. cities to live in. Today, with median housing values of $456,400 and median gross monthly rent of $1,723, the development is…
December 18, 2023
The State of Democratic Capitalism: 2023
…— six years after the financial crisis — for the median inflation-adjusted wages to return to its level in 2007 level. For six years, over half of workers lost ground. It is…
December 14, 2023
The Myth of the 1%
…and more women have entered the workforce. This considerable improvement in Americans’ well-being is more striking than the share of income accruing to the country’s highest earners. Compare a median-income household to…
December 13, 2023
Stronger Families, Safer Streets
…median share of single-parent families, compared to cities that have fewer single-parent families. That difference is even larger with respect to violent crime and homicide, specifically, with cities above the…
December 11, 2023
How Public Housing Encourages Single Parenthood and Penalizes Marriage
…data from HUD’s Office of Policy Development and Research, median income per person in public and subsidized housing is just $8,000 today, and 77 % of tenants are classified as “lowest-income”…
November 30, 2023
A Valuable New Perspective on America’s War on Poverty
…This relative measure adjusts yearly thresholds in line with median income changes. “The dramatic reduction in poverty by 2019 based on President Johnson’s absolute 1960s standards suggests that policymakers might…
November 11, 2023
Why is NYC Telling Teachers to Not Keep Kids Safe?
…found that Black children “were killed by family members at about seven times the rate for white and Asian children and three times the rate for Hispanic children.” But no,…
November 9, 2023
What Dems — And NYC — Can Learn From The GOP’s Bronx City Council Win
…are all mixed, they are black, Spanish, Indian,” she said. “I feel sad because why they doing this, I don’t understand.” That’s how a Republican can win in a district…
November 9, 2023
Child Support Policy: Areas of Emerging Agreement and Ongoing Debate
This paper will be delivered at the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management 2023 Fall Research Conference. Abstract The Child Support Enforcement (CSE) system has a broad scope and provides…