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May 23, 2023
Biden Courts Another Mortgage Crisis
…the threat of foreclosure or proper underwriting standards is ultimately an entitlement program. If such a program were established, it would be here to stay—and would most likely grow. What…
April 17, 2023
Data Tools 6: The Geography of Traditional Families in America
…Or you can download the dataset just to see where your current PUMA stands. To my knowledge, you won’t find comparable numbers anywhere else. Download the Dataset Read the Full…
April 4, 2023
Why Foster Children Are Sleeping in Offices and What We Can Do About It
…under Medicaid, amend the Family First Prevention Services Act to provide an exemption from QRTP standards for programs serving youth in the juvenile justice system, and significantly increase federal investment in developing…
December 15, 2022
The Myth of Income Stagnation
…about inequality? Here, the CBO computes the size of the gap between higher- and lower-income households using a standard statistical measure that accounts for the entire distribution of income (the…
December 9, 2022
“Automatic Stimulus”: How It Would Have Increased the Record Unemployment Benefits Paid During the Great Recession and Pandemic
…long-standing pattern of contemporary lawmakers determining when emergency benefits should be paid, some have proposed instead using unemployment rate “triggers” in the future to automatically turn and keep on such…
November 28, 2022
Public School Instructional Offerings and Enrollment Changes: Evidence from Two Years After the Pandemic
…on public school enrollment. From a descriptive standpoint, we find that public school districts that offered the most remote instruction in the 2020–21 school year saw the largest declines in…
February 23, 2022
The Case Against Universal Free Lunch
…that pregnant pigs be provided enough space to stand and turn around—a law that yielded histrionic headlines, such as “Bacon May Disappear in California.”12 I’d love to be proved wrong,…
November 16, 2021
The Changing Face of Social Breakdown
…in loving commitment to others stands a better chance of showing people both what they have to gain by coming off the sidelines and what they have to lose by…
July 2, 2021
Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
…rates to the public. Adopt an absolute standard—and potentially a purely relative standard—for adjusting poverty thresholds over time. An absolute standard should update thresholds based on the Chained Consumer Price…
May 4, 2020
How To Educate an American
In the years after A Nation at Risk, conservatives’ ideas to reform America’s lagging education system gained much traction. Key items like school choice and rigorous academic standards drew bipartisan support…