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January 29, 2024
Pandemic Unemployment Fraud in Context: Causes, Costs, and Solutions
Key Points The nation’s unemployment benefits system, which was significantly expanded during the COVID-19 pandemic, suffered unprecedented losses to fraud and improper payments. Official—and still partial—estimates of improper payments approach…
January 26, 2024
Please Congress: Make Fiscal Sanity a Priority
…on out-of-control federal spending, reducing the deficit, and bringing down our national debt. And yet, when an obvious opportunity falls in their lap to reduce federal spending, cut the deficit,…
January 24, 2024
It’s National School Choice Week. Democrats: What Do You Think?
This week is National School Choice Week, which makes it a good time to ponder the state of the school choice coalition. During the Clinton–Bush school reform era, broad swaths…
January 22, 2024
SNAP to it, Congress — we need to address the obesity crisis now
The United States has witnessed historic and escalating rates of obesity among adults in recent decades. As of 2020, official government statistics indicate that obesity inflicts 42 percent of Americans, including one in…
January 21, 2024
Portland’s Encampment Kids
…from two years prior, and including more women and children. A National Drug Helpline report identified Oregon as the state with America’s worst drug problems. According to the 2021 National…
January 17, 2024
Congress, Don’t Legislate a Takeover of the Nation’s Rental Housing Market
…two credits would expand eligibility to about three quarters of the nation’s renters. Both programs would offer generous federal government subsidies for building new apartments. Such a massive expansion of the state…
January 12, 2024
Small-Dollar Demonstration Projects Can’t Hide That a National Guaranteed Income Program Would Cost Trillions
…would arise if such programs operated at a national level, as proponents intend. This report reviews the costs of some recent proposals to operate such national guaranteed income programs, which…
January 12, 2024
Congress Shouldn’t Expand Welfare in Return for Corporate Tax Cuts
…the Child Tax Credit and reduced revenue from the business-tax provisions must be fully offset by reduced spending elsewhere. The national debt recently surpassed $34 trillion. Now is not the…
January 11, 2024
Tax Credit Nation — Politicians Are Casting New Spending As ‘Tax Cuts,’ Hiding Their True Cost
With the national debt soaring past $34 trillion, liberal politicians hoping to expand the federal leviathan face a conundrum. How can they convince Americans wary of the effects of runaway…
January 10, 2024
Even Congress’s “Tax Extenders” Are About More Benefits
…confirmed that full refundability would have yielded only bigger benefit checks for parents who don’t owe federal income taxes in the first place. That naturally belies the program’s moniker and Democrats’ “tax cut”…