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May 6, 2025
…projected in fraud involving pandemic unemployment benefits. It gets worse. A recent Department of Labor (DOL) Inspector General report leaves little doubt that nearly all of these losses, which veteran lawmakers have called “the greatest theft of tax dollars in US…
April 23, 2025
…of means-tested programs. Part 2 reviews several rhetorical advantages for policymakers of similarly converting other open-ended entitlement programs to block grants, and offers concluding thoughts. Part 2: Rhetorical Advantages of…
April 23, 2025
…of means-tested programs. Part 2 reviews several rhetorical advantages for policymakers of similarly converting other open-ended entitlement programs to block grants, and offers concluding thoughts. Part 1: The TANF Block…
February 4, 2025
…circulated a short list of would-be savings totaling over $5 trillion, followed by a 50-page menu offering almost $15 trillion in nominal deficit reduction alongside more than $3 trillion in potential “sweeteners.” If lawmakers…
December 27, 2024
…poverty. But reform could be on the horizon, led by the new Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE can address these staggering failures by identifying how lawmakers can streamline programs…
December 3, 2024
Taxpayers in most states may have dodged a billion-dollar bullet on election day. That is, if the outcome had been different, liberal lawmakers would have been uniquely positioned to bail…
September 11, 2024
…school reform and properly assessing student outcomes, and AEI’s Beth Akers addressed the absence of accountability and some of the cultural issues surrounding higher education. The event concluded with a…
August 2, 2024
Today’s US jobs report finds the nation’s unemployment rate increased to 4.3 percent in July. According to a measure often cited by liberal policymakers, that suggests the US has entered…
July 17, 2024
…policy recommendations,” but instead “is intended to provide policymakers, advocates, and the media with a range of thoughts” on the broad range of UI reform topics the task force reviewed. I…
May 30, 2024
…a “tax cut” 15 times. In reality, the policy was so tilted toward benefit increases it turned the IRS—America’s tax collection agency—into our country’s biggest welfare dispenser. Why are policymakers so eager to cast benefit…