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Commentary
Assessing Duplicative Federal Benefit Programs and Preventing Abuse
…16, 2024, https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-105833. [26] Matt Weidinger, Funding the Administration of Unemployment Benefits: Overview and Reforms to Improve Efficiency and Program Integrity, American Enterprise Institute, January 21, 2026, https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/funding-the-administration-of-unemployment-benefits-overview-and-reforms-to-improve-efficiency-and-program-integrity/. [27] Matt Weidinger and Amy Simon, Pandemic Unemployment…
Commentary
Summary and Analysis of the “Stop Unemployment Fraud Act”
…heavily-defrauded federal PUA program lacked an identity verification requirement for those claiming benefits. As former Department of Labor official Amy Simon and I noted in a January 2024 report, Key…
Blog Post
The Mirage of “Pro-Worker AI” via Public Policy
…businesses and entrepreneurs—not by a policy plan designed in Washington. That’s a core point in a recent critique by economist Joshua Gans of a proposal from Daron Acemoglu, David Autor, and Simon Johnson to…
Op-Ed
When It Comes to Fraud, Even American Tolerance Has Its Limits
…But it is not uncommon — as in the case of the FLDS — for groups who flout some kinds of laws to also flout others. Polygamy is also quietly…
Blog Post
Apocalypse Not
…may recall, claimed that $140,000 is the new poverty line and the “cost of existing.”) His figures come from the Living Wage Calculator (LWC), a project of Amy Glasmeier, a professor of…
Op-Ed
Musk’s High-Tech Polygamy Is a Dead End
Elon Musk told a conference in Saudi Arabia last year that his listeners “should view the birthrate as the single biggest problem [we] need to solve. If you don’t make new humans,…
Report
Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 2025
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Report
For the Sake of the Kids: Strengthening Families in the Lone Star State
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Article
America is Still Working
…1947 through 1957, I use estimates from Simona E. Cociuba, Edward C. Prescott, and Alexander Ueberfeldt, “US Hours at Work,” Economics Letters 169, 87-90 (2018), data file updated October 2021,…
Testimony
Answering Key Questions About Unemployment Insurance Reforms
…event of a layoff. A January 2024 report I coauthored with Amy Simon breaks down the respective federal and state roles: “The federal role in the UI program includes providing…
Blog Post
New “Scorecard” Report Promotes Better Use of Data to Prevent Unemployment Fraud
Criminals inflicted unprecedented fraud on taxpayer benefits during the pandemic, and some of the most abused programs were those that provided temporary federal unemployment benefits. As we documented in a…
Blog Post
Measuring What Matters: Context and Recommendations to Improve Reporting on Unemployment Insurance
Criminals inflicted unprecedented fraud on taxpayer benefits during the pandemic, and some of the most abused programs were those that provided temporary federal unemployment benefits. As we documented in a…