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February 7, 2024
Solving Benefit Cliffs in SNAP
…that the household does not include an elderly or disabled member. It also assumes that a households’ shelter costs accord with Fair Market Rents established by the US Department of…
February 7, 2024
Elite Colleges Need to Offer Less Affirmation. And Insist on More Work.
…and Mindy Marks calculated that in 1961 the average full-time student at a four-year college studied about 24 hours per week; by 2003, that was down to 14 hours. We’ve normalized a…
February 7, 2024
The Past and Future of Education Reform
…when yesterday’s left worked to impose bureaucratic uniformity on the nation’s schools. Rather, we’ll focus on the era of education reform that started in 1983 with the landmark report, A Nation…
February 7, 2024
To Save Local Journalism, Update The Public Broadcasting Act
…public broadcasting is not immune from a market test. It has been 56 years since Lyndon Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act, which has gone virtually unchanged in the interim….
February 6, 2024
Research by a Top Biden Administration Economist Reinforces the Importance of Work Incentives in the Child Tax Credit and the Safety Net
…single mothers markedly over the past 30 years. (In that regard, you really should look at Bastian’s Figure 2, which shows the employment rate of single mothers jumping about 14…
February 5, 2024
The Biden Administration’s War on Flexibility at Work
One of the signal errors of Biden administration policy has been its tendency to take regulatory actions that reduce the flexibility of the economy generally and the labor market in…
February 2, 2024
Has Intergenerational Progress Stalled? Income Growth over Five Generations of Americans
…increase in real market income than Baby Boomers. Intergenerational progress for Millennials under age 30 has remained robust as well, although their income growth largely results from higher reliance on…
January 31, 2024
How Should State and Local Governments Respond to Illegal Retail Cannabis?
…KUNC, “Seven Years After Legalization, Colorado Battles an Illegal Marijuana Market,” August 14, 2019, https://www.kunc.org/news/2019-08-14/seven-years-after-legalization-colorado-battles-an-illegal-marijuana-market; and Shira Schoenberg, “Black Market May Be Marijuana Legalization’s Biggest Challenge,” CommonWealth Beacon, November 29, 2020, https://commonwealthbeacon.org/uncategorized/black-market-may-be-marijuana-legalizations-biggest-challenge….
January 31, 2024
The Wyden-Smith Child Tax Credit and Work: Responding to Critics
…to considering a simple two-period model given that the existing CTC was not implemented until 2018 and COVID-19 caused major labor market disruptions beginning in 2020.) Empirically, whether the look-back…
January 31, 2024
Perspective: The ‘social workplace’ and why it matters to Zoomers
…human. Looked at this way, markets are human social behavior “at-scale,” driven by the innate human tendency to trade for mutual development and benefit. Data from our most recent report on “The…