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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

…to quantify this sensitivity, and Bastian and others have unsuccessfully tried to argue that that is far too high. (In truth, the research of even several of these critics, Bastian

February 5, 2024

Why We All Rely On the Organized Kindness of Strangers

…not long after I began reporting on religion, the average congregation in America had a median attendance of 130 people. By 2020, according to[v] the Faith Communities Today study, the…

February 2, 2024

Has Intergenerational Progress Stalled? Income Growth over Five Generations of Americans

…on the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement. At age 36–40, Millennials had a real median household income that was 18 percent higher than that of the previous…

January 31, 2024

Long COVID for Public Schools: Chronic Absenteeism Before and After the Pandemic

…students. In 2022, 16 percent of Asian students and 24 percent of white students were chronically absent, compared to 36 percent of Hispanic students and 39 percent of black students….

January 30, 2024

How Sensitive Are Single Mothers’ Work Decisions to a Change in Incentives? Correcting Misperceptions of the Evidence

…et al. (2021, rev 2022), p. A-21; single mothers and single mothers w/ hs or less; unpublished Bastian (2020) 0.6 — lower Appendix D; single mothers Bastian and Jones (2021)…

January 23, 2024

A Follow-Up on My Recent Testimony to the Joint Economic Committee on Policy Approaches to Increasing the Supply of Affordable Housing

…offers generous tax credits for builders that rent units to tenants earning below 60% of area median income. During the hearing’s Q&A, I did not have time to elaborate on…

January 21, 2024

Portland’s Encampment Kids

…on the steering wheel, my Hispanic Uber driver asked with exasperation, “What did they think was going to happen?” Portland can seem dystopian. A naked homeless man in a wheelchair…

January 18, 2024

Evidence Mounts That Pre-K Harms Kids

…and Democrats have argued that the strong positive results from the Perry Preschool Project and the Abecedarian Study prove that universal pre-k would significantly help children. That claim was always…

January 17, 2024

Achieving Housing Abundance Through State and Local Land Use and Zoning Reform

…would extend eligibility for subsidized units tenants earning below the area median. On a combined basis the two credits would expand eligibility to about three quarters of the nation’s renters….

January 17, 2024

A Midwest State of Mind

…in small businesses, its economy reinforced what Lauck terms “the moral teachings of Christian/Victorian culture.” In his view, the Midwest epitomized American “exceptionalism.” Even so, Lauck writes, while the Midwest…