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October 25, 2024
How Workforce Education Can Boost Earnings and Fill Jobs
…Pell Grants began to cover the cost. Still, the instinct to level the playing field between traditional higher education and workforce training is a good one, and policymakers ought to…
October 23, 2024
Work Requirement Waivers Increased FoodShare Caseloads and Costs in Wisconsin
…from absolute. Federal lawmakers allowed states to waive it in certain circumstances, and Wisconsin officials have done so much of the time. The result has been higher FoodShare caseloads and…
October 21, 2024
US Tariffs Will Not Bring Back Jobs from China
…response. Worse, the protectionism of the Trump-Pence and Biden-Harris administrations has visibly hurt workers and consumers. Part of the reason policymakers have taken such a wrong turn is that the…
October 16, 2024
Kevin Corinth: Addressing Social Capital Poverty in America
…relationship between economic and social factors, highlighting the need for a more comprehensive approach to addressing societal challenges. As policymakers and communities grapple with these issues, Kevin Corinth from the…
October 11, 2024
It’s time to face up to our social poverty problem
…less than we used to, and we provide each other less social support. Rather than owning up to our glaring social poverty problem, policymakers have focused instead on relieving economic…
October 9, 2024
Learning the Right Lessons from the “China Shock”
…it is about consumption, productivity growth, and wage growth. What, then, are the right lessons? There are two important lessons for economists and policymakers from the “China shock” literature. First,…
October 9, 2024
Two Cheers for California’s Ban on Legacy Admissions
…association. When they’re operating on their own dime, private colleges have a right to admit whom they like. At the same time, lawmakers have every right to write rules for public colleges…
October 3, 2024
Protectionism is Failing and Wrongheaded: An Evaluation of the Post-2017 Shift toward Trade Wars and Industrial Policy
…the US and Chinese economies. More fundamentally, the goals that have not been met are wrongheaded: policymakers should not pay inordinate attention to manufacturing employment, and the trade deficit is…
October 2, 2024
Higher Education: Making Education Beyond High School Work for All
…higher education as if it always pays off. Instead, policymakers should leverage market forces to reward forms of higher education that serve students well, and penalize those that do not….
September 24, 2024
Household Food Insecurity Rises Again – Inflation, especially for households ineligible for safety net programs, to blame
…insecurity rates in the U.S. And in recent years, policymakers have both temporarily and permanently increased benefits for recipients. Of particular note is the permanent increase in SNAP benefits (approximately…