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February 27, 2024
Options for Improving the Child Tax Credit Provisions in H.R. 7024, the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024
…raising children. But H.R. 7024’s child tax credit provisions provide 91 percent of the benefits to families with no income tax liability, belying the “tax relief” marketing proponents often claim….
February 23, 2024
Study What You Love or Study What Will Make You Money?
…The full answer isn’t found by focusing on the “either” or the “or” but to look at both. While parents and students need to keep one eye on the market,…
February 22, 2024
The Workforce/Middle-Income Housing Tax Credit
…Credit (MIHTC). In response, the AEI Housing Center gathered leading housing experts to discuss the LIHTC’s poor record and propose more effective market solutions. In the first panel, AEI’s Kevin…
February 22, 2024
A Slow Start for Skills-Based Hiring
Growing second-thoughts on bachelors’ degrees and labor market pressures have caused employers to move toward more inclusive recruitment practices through “skills-based hiring.” This approach prioritizes the specific abilities and competencies…
February 20, 2024
The New Right’s Attack on Markets Is as Ignorant as the Old Left’s
…market orthodoxy. The downsides, he says, are both real and grave. He acknowledges that free-market advocates have often oversold their case, making predictions—about growth, peace, and China—that have either not…
February 20, 2024
Planning a Career in the Age of AI
…top of the “critical skills” list while proficiency in STEM and basic computer and software skills have dropped to the bottom. That’s an important market signal. We should pay attention…
February 16, 2024
The Overlooked Benefits of Work-from-Home Opportunities
…mothers relative to other women, with significant narrowing of employment gaps in traditionally less family-friendly fields such as finance and marketing. Notably, an analogous effect was not found for men….
February 15, 2024
Sacred Sex
…temptations. Religious married men are markedly less likely to use pornography than their secular peers, according to the 2022 State of Our Unions Survey. Only 35 percent of religious husbands have…
February 15, 2024
Harvard (Mis)Leading Housing Study
…(2015). It’s a finding that seems to point to what subsidized housing advocates have believed since the Depression: that the private market inevitably fails the poor. The report itself included…
February 14, 2024
Valentine’s Day Marred By Loneliness Crisis
…to say about marriage and childbearing, even though there is no group of Americans less lonely than married parents. As we mark this romantic day, more young and middle-aged single…