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March 21, 2024
Sugary Beverage Consumption Among SNAP Recipients
…could improve health outcomes for low-income households. This is just the latest rejection by Washington policymakers of proposals designed to improve nutritional outcomes for SNAP participants. Despite opposition to restrictions…
March 19, 2024
Conservatives Distrust Higher Ed—But Still Need Degrees
…models and the active encouragement of parents and friends who have degrees. Elizabeth Currid-Halkett, a professor of urban planning at the University of Southern California and a native of rural…
March 15, 2024
Housing Abundance with Light-Touch Density
Executive Summary: The following presentation on “Communication with Policymakers and Media – For the Win!” was presented at YIMBYtown 2024, covering how Light-touch Density is the key to achieving housing…
March 14, 2024
A Crucial Fix For Rent Regulation
…too blunt an instrument to reach these households.” But if rent stabilization is here to stay, lawmakers need at least to make sure that property owners can stay in business….
March 11, 2024
How Many Forms of “Wage Insurance” Do We Need, Exactly?
…lookback policy as “a form of wage insurance,” recalling a program some liberal lawmakers proposed—and failed to enact—before the Great Recession. Authors affiliated with the liberal Center on Budget and…
March 11, 2024
Taking On the College Cartel
…here—and an opportunity. Policymakers who are troubled by this state of affairs but unsure how to respond may be inclined to look to the K–12 playbook, thinking that what’s needed…
March 11, 2024
Louisiana’s FAFSA U-Turn Signals That “College-for-All” Has Peaked
…large in K-12 schooling, distorted our priorities, and had fueled the neglect of career and technical education. That take was noxious to education advocates, philanthropists, policymakers, and the higher education…
March 7, 2024
Growing Congressional Dysfunction Will Worsen Our Fiscal Problems
Few were surprised when deposed House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) retired in December. While Republican leaders tend to exit quickly after losing committee gavels or leadership posts, the additional departure of other respected senior lawmakers in both parties is damaging…
March 5, 2024
The Societal Cost of the Marriage Decline
…is attributable to women becoming parents. For college-educated women seeking to maintain a career and start a family, these realities are impossible to ignore. For their part, federal lawmakers are…
March 4, 2024
As the family goes, so goes the state. Utah gets this
…Utah policymakers advanced policies designed to reinforce marriage and strong and stable families across the state. These policies reflect their data-driven understanding of what is required to advance the welfare…