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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 28, 2025
You Autor Know
…of the century made or led by US policymakers: the granting to China of permanent normal trade relations status in 2000 and the concurrent acceptance of China into the World…
April 24, 2025
It’s About Time: Bring Back Those Student Loan Collections
This week, the Department of Education announced that on May 5 it will begin collecting on defaulted student loans. This will be the first time since March 2020 that borrowers who have…
April 23, 2025
In Case of Emergency, Open Block Grant: Part 2
…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
In Case of Emergency, Open Block Grant: Part 1
…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…
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…
April 15, 2025
Is There Really Pent-Up Demand for Ten Times the Manufacturing Jobs We Have?
…they’d be better off working—period. It’s hardly a special endorsement of factory jobs. There’s a similar ambiguity for people who are neither working nor looking for work. Among homemakers, for…
April 3, 2025
The dangerous myth that poverty is the cause of child abuse
…them from engaging in services, while also diminishing their ability to protect and care for their children. Oversimplifying the causes of child maltreatment will only lead policymakers to offer ineffective…
April 1, 2025
Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani’s Dangerous Radicalism on Child Welfare
…But as mayor, Mamdani would be ideally placed to put these ideas into practice, just as “progressive” prosecutors use their offices to enact policies that lawmakers reject. It’s hard to…
March 27, 2025
The Looming Debt Crisis, the Trump Tax Cuts, and Medicaid
…not CBO’s 154 percent. Given this unprecedented situation, you might expect federal policymakers to prioritize deficit reduction this year. But the recently passed House budget resolution would add around $3 trillion to the…