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February 14, 2023
Brave New Technology
…I highly recommend Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro’s meditation on humanity’s fraught relationship with technology that’s “smarter” than its makers.) Regardless of who’s on the 51 and 49 of this…
December 9, 2022
“Automatic Stimulus”: How It Would Have Increased the Record Unemployment Benefits Paid During the Great Recession and Pandemic
…long-standing pattern of contemporary lawmakers determining when emergency benefits should be paid, some have proposed instead using unemployment rate “triggers” in the future to automatically turn and keep on such…
November 28, 2022
Public School Instructional Offerings and Enrollment Changes: Evidence from Two Years After the Pandemic
…school closures, 2020–21 and 2021–22. Understanding the relationship between reopening policies and enrollment changes can help policymakers prepare for future challenges that could arise in schools. For example, large enrollment…
September 30, 2022
Off Track: An Assessment of Wisconsin’s Early Care and Learning System for Young Children
…help that taxpayers offer. And Rachidi lays out steps that Wisconsin policymakers can take to fix things — specifically how they can reduce the deadening weight of the state’s hand…
September 12, 2022
Section 199A and “Tax Parity”
…income and investment. After 2025, lawmakers have an opportunity to revisit Section 199A and consider alternative reforms to the tax treatment of business income. Read the PDF. Executive Summary In…
February 23, 2022
The Case Against Universal Free Lunch
…workday to feed their child. Which attitude—that of Swiss parents or that of American progressives—is more conducive to a flourishing society? Although American policymakers tend to exhibit what Oren Cass…
July 2, 2021
Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
…the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) has offered researchers and policymakers an alternative way of measuring poverty in the United States and assessing the effectiveness of antipoverty policy. The SPM addresses…
August 3, 2020
Replace the Federal Student Loan System with an Income Share Agreement Program
…help. However, debt forgiveness plans, such as those proposed by Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), deliver the biggest benefits to those who need it least. A better…
January 17, 2020
Rethinking Reentry
Policymakers and researchers have been searching for a solution to persistently high rates of recidivism for decades. While the number of incarcerated individuals under federal and state jurisdiction has decreased in recent years…