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June 13, 2024
Why Married Fathers Matter
…say about family breakdown on this topic. And yet data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health tell us that being Black elevates a young man’s odds…
June 10, 2024
Employment and Labor Supply Responses to the Child Tax Credit Expansion: Theory and Evidence
Abstract The 2021 Child Tax Credit (CTC) expansion increased government benefits to families, and especially to families with the lowest incomes. Economic theory predicts that this policy intervention would have…
June 10, 2024
The Economic World We’ve Lost
…immigrants. In Ronald Reagan’s final speech as president, he explained that: “We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people – our strength – from every country…
May 29, 2024
Liberals Should Decide Whether Being a Homemaker Is Demeaning or Worthy of Huge New Government Benefits
…to unpaid homemakers. For example, in the 1980s self-styled “welfare warriors” in Wisconsin declared that “caring for a family is work” and merited new national benefit checks with “no strings attached,…
May 24, 2024
The First National Calculation of Mortality of the US Homeless Population
…that provides the first national calculation of mortality for the US homeless population (Meyer et al. 2023). We calculate mortality by linking 139,000 adults recorded as sheltered and unsheltered homeless…
May 23, 2024
Biden’s Unending Student Loan Forgiveness Run
On Tuesday, the Biden administration announced $7.7 billion in student debt cancellation for about 161,000 borrowers, equating to about $48,000 per borrower. Compared to what has already been spent on loan forgiveness…
May 23, 2024
Vast Vote-Buying Strategy — ‘Like We Have Never Seen Before’ — Is Laid to Democrats by North Dakota’s Governor
…for low-income children, adults, and seniors. SSI is already one of the nation’s largest cash welfare programs, providing $60 billion in annual benefits to 7.5 million disabled and elderly individuals. Under the changes,…
May 22, 2024
Missed Opportunities in the Proposed Farm Bill
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Glenn Thompson’s proposed Farm Bill reauthorization, The Farm, Food, and National Security Act of 2024, heads to committee markup today. The Farm Bill is a tough reauthorization…
May 21, 2024
Did AI Just Pass the Turing Test?
…as knowledge and reasoning. The study’s revelation that socio-emotional factors were more decisive than factual or logical reasoning in passing the Turing test speaks volumes about the nature of human…
May 15, 2024
The American heart is closing to marriage and family. Can red states change that?
The American heart is closing. The signs, including dramatic drops in dating, marriage, and childbearing, are all around us. The falling fortunes of marriage and family across the nation can be traced back to cultural shifts…