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February 27, 2024
Options for Improving the Child Tax Credit Provisions in H.R. 7024, the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024
…on the bigger tax reform debate over the horizon in 2025. Throughout our nation’s history, until 2020, only in the three years following World War II was the national debt…
February 22, 2024
Chronic Absenteeism Could Be the Biggest Problem Facing Schools Right Now
Chronic absenteeism has become a grim reality across the nation. Nationwide, chronic absenteeism nearly doubled from 15 percent in 2018 to 26 percent in 2023. How bad are these numbers,…
February 22, 2024
The Workforce/Middle-Income Housing Tax Credit
…a swarm of naturally affordable small-scale development. Event Description Congress will soon consider two bipartisan bills to address high rental costs. Combined, these two programs would expand eligibility of subsidized…
February 15, 2024
Harvard (Mis)Leading Housing Study
Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies is back with its annual State of the Nation’s Housing report—and once again it reaches a bleak conclusion based on a loaded and leading…
February 15, 2024
Conservatives Must Seize the Opportunity to Lead on Education. Here’s How…
…social, political, and civic institutions.” Tack on prolonged school closures, campus craziness, and declining test scores, and it’s no great surprise that public confidence in the nation’s schools and colleges…
February 14, 2024
Four States That Are Leading the Charge for Conservative Education
It’s looking like this year’s election will feature a Trump-Biden rematch — a pairing that’s especially frustrating for education, where the nation is wrestling with a raft of real problems: dismal student…
February 9, 2024
Resolving to Learn Lessons from Record Pandemic Fraud
…repeat of staggering taxpayer losses. The coronavirus pandemic tested the nation’s unemployment benefits system more than any previous recession. Lockdowns and mass layoffs starting in March 2020—coupled with unprecedented new…
February 8, 2024
CTC Expansion Rooted in Desire to Roll Back Work-based Welfare
…work rather than collect benefits, and brought about a profound transformation to the nation’s welfare system. The result—depicted in Figure 1 below—was an unprecedented surge in labor force participation among…
February 7, 2024
The Past and Future of Education Reform
…when yesterday’s left worked to impose bureaucratic uniformity on the nation’s schools. Rather, we’ll focus on the era of education reform that started in 1983 with the landmark report, A Nation…
February 6, 2024
Research by a Top Biden Administration Economist Reinforces the Importance of Work Incentives in the Child Tax Credit and the Safety Net
…the number of all single mothers (working or not). That is directly opposed to what he says is appropriate in a forthcoming paper that will appear in the National Tax…