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January 19, 2024
The Work Incentive and Employment Effects of Eliminating the Child Tax Credit’s Annual Income Requirement
…We also discuss how the reform would affect the incentive to work more or fewer hours. We conclude that this reform would have important impacts on the labor market that…
January 17, 2024
Achieving Housing Abundance Through State and Local Land Use and Zoning Reform
…the urge to increase the supply of affordable housing. Before taking any action, it should first consider a couple of misconceptions: Misconception 1: The housing supply shortage is a market…
January 17, 2024
Tax Extenders Package Would Cut the Child Tax Credit’s Annual Work Requirement in Half
…qualify for the CTC, which will be based on their 2023 earnings. But the agreement announced yesterday—which the Ways and Means Committee may mark up as soon as Friday—would allow parents to instead use earnings in either of the last two years to claim the…
January 17, 2024
Congress, Don’t Legislate a Takeover of the Nation’s Rental Housing Market
…According to one study, almost all LIHTC development would have been built by the market without any subsidies. If that’s not enough, LIHTC also limits social mobility by creating the perverse incentive…
January 12, 2024
Get Ready for AI-Driven Skill Democratization
…and, to a lesser extent, trade dramatically reduced the number of middle-skill jobs leading to what economists called a “polarized” labor market: many high-skilled and low-skilled jobs but relatively few that…
January 12, 2024
What is the Utah “Family Miracle”?
…teens. And under Cox’s leadership, Utah has also launched a social marketing campaign — relying on billboards and social media ads of its own — to highlight the dangers of social media and…
January 11, 2024
Tax Credit Nation — Politicians Are Casting New Spending As ‘Tax Cuts,’ Hiding Their True Cost
…played an important role in recent American social policy, including by offering incentives for work over welfare. But just because new and expanded credits may be falsely marketed as “tax cuts”…
January 10, 2024
Even Congress’s “Tax Extenders” Are About More Benefits
…marketing. Perhaps it was inevitable that proposals to revive the 2021 CTC expansion would someday find their way into a tax extenders package. But that should only heighten concerns that…
January 9, 2024
Post-Pandemic Recovery for America’s Prime Age Labor Force: A Tale of Two Sexes
…market performance measures. Many more prime age Americans were in the labor force and paid jobs in 2023 than in 2019, the last pre-pandemic year (2.4 million and 3.1 million…
January 4, 2024
To Fix Their Housing Shortage in 2024, Cities and States Should Turn To Market
States and cities considering housing supply reforms in the new year to combat worsening affordability should unleash the free market rather than rely on the Department for Housing and Urban…