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April 8, 2025
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: Supporting Employment
…unemployment rates are low. Third, to strengthen the connection between SNAP and employment policymakers can focus on two key areas: strengthening and expanding work requirements and addressing benefit cliffs. These…
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…
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…
March 24, 2025
Keeping Medicaid Sustainable While Prioritizing the Vulnerable
…and benefits of various reform proposals affecting children, working-age adults, and the elderly? How can policymakers best prioritize vulnerable populations as they debate ways to make Medicaid spending growth sustainable?…
March 21, 2025
Increasing Financial Aid Isn’t the Solution to High College Costs
…federal Pell Grant, which advocates claim has lost its “purchasing power” over time. This narrative is misleading. In fact, policymakers have made financial aid programs such as Pell Grants far…
March 18, 2025
Rebuilding Higher Education Finance: Reform Through Reconciliation
…Council Moderator: Beth Akers, Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute 4:45 p.m. Q&A 5:00 p.m. Adjournment Related Content A Conservative Vision for Higher Education Reform Beth Akers | American Enterprise Institute…
March 17, 2025
How State Policymakers Can Save the Nuclear Family
…falling prospects of family life across the country, state policymakers need to take three steps. First, they should promote marriage (one of the biggest predictors of family formation) in public…
March 14, 2025
A Historic Opportunity for Higher Education Reform
…policy divides between mainstream Democrats and Republicans used to be trivial. For example, 10 years ago, Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) proposal to lower student loan interest rates to 3.9 percent seemed radical. It was…