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December 5, 2024
Inflation Reduction Act Offers a General Lesson against Industrial Policy
…absolutely raid it for revenue to reduce business taxes without increasing the budget deficit. If that happens, policy-makers should relearn a valuable lesson: Partisan industrial policy faces many obstacles to…
December 3, 2024
Avoiding an Unemployment Loan Bailout
Taxpayers in most states may have dodged a billion-dollar bullet on election day. That is, if the outcome had been different, liberal lawmakers would have been uniquely positioned to bail…
November 25, 2024
Don’t Write Off Workforce Pell Grants
…by an average of $4,000. High-quality programs such as FastForward shouldn’t lose out on federal funding simply because other workforce education courses demonstrate worse outcomes. Policymakers should adopt a posture…
November 21, 2024
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work
…in AI and its impacts on the workforce will be critical to helping inform and equip workers and policymakers to flexibly respond to AI developments. Access the full version here….
November 20, 2024
End Federal Loans for Graduate School
…willing to step in and help these students pay for their educations. Indeed, a thriving private market for graduate student loans existed before Congress removed limits on federal lending. But if policymakers…
November 20, 2024
Eliminate Federal Lending to Graduate and Professional Students; Revenue to Fund Block Grants to States
Graduate student lending is out of control. Students are effectively borrowing without limit to pay for graduate and professional schools, many of which offer little or no return on their…
November 19, 2024
A Trump Boom?
…from 2017 to expire, and it could fully eliminate certain itemized deductions, including those for mortgage interest and state and local tax payments. Finally, US lawmakers can pursue more fundamental…
November 15, 2024
JD Vance is Right: Reduce the Power of Big Foundations to Help Charity
…an extended deduction will or won’t increase giving. Lawmakers, instead, worry about the revenue loss to the IRS that would result. Indeed, the CARES Act incentive, now expired, has been…
November 14, 2024
The Rotting of the College Board
…section of the test.” Divvying up the test into easier and more difficult parts, he found that “Black test takers overperformed on the hard part and underperformed on the easy…
November 13, 2024
How Trump Might Fulfill His Higher-Education Campaign Promises
…to pay for specific education initiatives. In particular, Trump could urge lawmakers to use the endowment tax revenue to expand financial assistance for students who are not pursuing four-year college…