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February 18, 2025
Why So Blue: Liberal Women Are Less Happy, More Lonely. But Why?
…gap in the mental health of liberal and conservative women still present? Yes, new evidence from 2024 American Family Survey indicates it is. Young liberal women are markedly less satisfied with life than…
February 14, 2025
Poverty During the Pandemic and the Role of Government Transfers
…and money market accounts, certificates of deposit (CDs), directly-held stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. The data are from the CE. Asset information is collected only in the fifth interview of…
February 11, 2025
AI and the Future of Work Looks Bright
…and machine learning technologies, could provide us with a better understanding of current and future labor market demand. Such refinements to labor market information would form the foundation for more…
February 10, 2025
For Better: Four Proven Ways To A Strong And Stable Marriage
Introduction “Marriage is a path to misery and a transition of loss marked by giving up and missing out.” This is the message that, surprisingly enough, is emanating from both…
February 7, 2025
Low-Performing Students Fall Farther Behind the Pack
On January 29, the National Assessment of Education Progress, NAEP, released results from its 2024 assessment. This latest installment of the self-styled “Nation’s Report Card” makes depressing reading. Indeed, if…
January 24, 2025
The Targeting of Place-Based Policies: The New Markets Tax Credit Versus Opportunity Zones
…New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC), where government-approved entities select investments, and Opportunity Zones (OZs), where private investors choose projects. Despite underlying design differences, both target census tracts with relatively high…
January 22, 2025
How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target
…basic questions like: Why can’t we build better infrastructure faster? Why can’t capital markets and bank lending be nimbler? Not only do such questions identify a specific goal; they also…
January 21, 2025
How Trump Can Permanently Fix the Student Loan Program
…this problem. In the private market, lenders assess whether a prospective borrower is likely to repay their debts in full — and decline to lend when they doubt the borrower’s…
January 21, 2025
Calling DOGE: HUD’s Costly Hunt for Answers the Market Already Has
…at no cost—from market-oriented organizations like the AEI Housing Center or Mercatus. Unfortunately, HUD’s approach is likely to result in more bureaucracy, subsidies, and government intervention, rather than addressing the…
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…