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January 21, 2025
President Trump’s USDA Should Fix Food Stamp Work Requirement Waivers
…the area had an unemployment rate greater than 120 percent of the national average and greater than six percent. Additionally, the regulation only permitted waivers for individual Labor Market Areas…
January 16, 2025
Should We Believe the Economic Data or Americans’ “Lyin’” Eyes? The Answer Is Yes.
…and labor market track the leading objective measure of the strength of the labor market. No lyin’ eyes or lyin’ data here. At least not through mid-2021. Inflation Explains the…
January 7, 2025
More Skilled Immigrants for More Economic Growth
…One interesting suggestion for a fix: Visa auctions that offer a market-driven alternative to government-controlled immigration. Such a system would allow employers to bid for workers based on actual economic value rather…
January 2, 2025
AI Will Have a Major Impact on Labor Markets. Here’s How the US Can Prepare
The nation can do better at forecasting AI-driven job and skill changes, including with a data-focused nonprofit that examines the technology’s impact. Markets are the killer app for efficiently organizing…
December 30, 2024
Coverage, Counter-cyclicality and Targeting of Work Requirement Waivers in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
…the work requirement for areas that meet conditions reflective of a weak labor market. We construct a dataset with the waiver status of each United States county for every month…
December 29, 2024
Why Rent Regulation Remains So Hard to Undo in NYC
…non-rent stabilized — is just $1,200. Market rents, in other words, can be close to regulated rents in lower-cost neighborhoods. Combined with a wave of vacant units coming back on the market…
December 27, 2024
DOGE Can Drive Reforms in America’s Broken Safety Net Programs
…Reforms help people rise out of poverty through program consolidation, reducing administrative costs, and ensuring states are better stakeholders with financial skin-in-the-game. The hallmark 1996 welfare reform law should serve as a…
December 18, 2024
Employers Should Drop Hiring Preferences for “Elite 34” Colleges
…Journal, some employers have dropped hiring preferences for graduates of elite universities—and a few even consider an Ivy League degree a black mark. The cases are anecdotal so far. But…
December 17, 2024
Make America Smart Again: The Jeopardy Test for Graduation
…of difficulty has not deterred mass market viewership. Just the opposite. In 2021, Jeopardy was the most-watched nonsports program on television, averaging 9.2 million nightly viewers, and this popularity sends a message. Americans…
December 17, 2024
Industrial Policy and Deficits: Dark Clouds for Democratic Capitalism
…requires free markets. Under democratic capitalism, the political system should interfere with markets as little as possible, only intervening for necessary regulation, to correct market externalities, and to raise revenue…