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October 12, 2023

Blue-State Benefits: How Federal Grants Fail to Consider Population Shift

Abstract The federal government annually awards hundreds of billions of dollars in grants to states. In this report, I examine funding for the largest federal grant programs for 2020–22, focusing…

October 11, 2023

The Social Workplace: Social Capital, Human Dignity, and Work in America, Volume II

A majority of American workers say that having the flexibility to balance their work and personal lives is one of most important or a very important consideration when choosing a…

September 21, 2023

National Home Price Appreciation (HPA) Index—August 2023

PDF to full report Key takeaways: National YoY HPA for August 2023 was 4.5%, up from 3.8% a month ago and down from 10.2% a year ago. Historically, HPA in…

September 18, 2023

Overregulated Childcare: Wisconsin’s 2023-’25 Biennial Budget and the Path Ahead

Wisconsin’s legislative budget session ended in July 2023 with an increase in childcare funding in the 2023-’25 biennial budget. However, the final budget did not include $340 million requested by…

September 12, 2023

Housing Finance Watch (Week 35 & 36, 2023)

PDF to full report Key takeaways: The median purchase rate rose 1/8 ppts. over the past week to 7 1/8%. Mortgage News Daily reported a daily avg. 30-year rate of…

August 8, 2023

Bad Hoosiers

A new book tells a strange tale of political extremism in the Midwest. “Why Hitler?” has probably absorbed more research energy, by an exponential factor, than any other historical question…

August 3, 2023

Expanding Economic Opportunities Through Evidence-Based Sector Training

Sectoral programs such as Year Up are strongly supported by evidence and have the potential for broad scaling. Scaling to serve thousands more workers will require novel adaptations, such as…

August 3, 2023

Expanding Economic Opportunities Through Evidence-Based Sector Training

Sectoral programs such as Year Up are strongly supported by evidence and have the potential for broad scaling. Scaling to serve thousands more workers will require novel adaptations, such as…

July 31, 2023

The Utah Model: Workforce Programs and Services Integration Tool Kit

The COVID-19 pandemic and its economic aftermath have created a renewed interest in high-performing service-delivery models for unemployed and dislocated workers and those lacking the job skills to fully participate…

July 21, 2023

Government-Supported Job Training in the US: Paths Toward Reforming the Workforce

Funding for government-supported job training in the US has been declining since the 1970s, and the current Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act program needs administrative reform to cut red tape…