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June 20, 2025
Senate Embraces “Do No Harm” for Higher Education
…proposal would strengthen the higher education system. But the current political environment presents a once-in-a-generation chance to fix the broken federal role in higher education. Lawmakers shouldn’t miss the opportunity…
June 12, 2025
The Senate’s Higher Education Reforms Are Strong (But Could Be Stronger)
…outcomes. The Senate will need to approve the full package, and lawmakers must reconcile its differences with another higher education reform plan recently passed the House. There are more steps before these…
May 29, 2025
How Non-disabled Medicaid Recipients Without Children Spend Their Time
…a good idea. Other factors that policymakers should consider include, for example, impacts on work and other community engagement, government spending, costs to hospitals, and the health and mortality risks…
May 28, 2025
An Evaluation of Approaches to Cut and Reform SNAP
…SNAP, look at some of the ways they could feasibly go about doing so, and then evaluating what the implications would be for some important outcomes that policy makers should…
May 12, 2025
To Improve Student Outcomes, Focus On Classroom Practice, Not Policy
…by my recent Marquette Today piece, the event—hosted in collaboration with the College of Education—brought together educators, researchers, and policymakers to discuss how improving classroom practice is the linchpin of meaningful…
May 6, 2025
What DOGE Flagged as Unemployment Fraud Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg—Most of Which Will Never Be Recovered
…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 17, 2025
Turn Public Service Loan Forgiveness into a State Block Grant
As Congress negotiates a bill to overhaul the federal budget, lawmakers looking to save money should note $30 billion in potential savings hiding in plain sight. The Public Service Loan…
March 25, 2025
Reimagining Federal Education R&D: IES, Workforce Skills, and State Leadership
…countries that participate in the study (over 30 in PIAAC). This produces a diffuse survey covering far too many aspects of skills than are needed by US policy makers. An…
February 28, 2025
Less Than Half of Medicaid Recipients Work Enough to Comply With a Work Requirement
…policymakers should consider when determining whether to institute a Medicaid work requirement, the form it should take, and to whom it should apply. For example, such factors should include the…
February 4, 2025
The Family First Act Would Expand Net Income Tax Refunds to Higher Income Families
…families in the top half of the income distribution. At a time when lawmakers are seeking ways to reduce the federal deficit, they should consider whether these changes are prudent….