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June 5, 2025
Measuring the Value of Nondegree Credentials
…Opens 5:00 p.m. Opening Remarks: Mark Schneider, Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute 5:05 p.m. Conversation: Mark Schneider, Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Matt Sigelman, President, The Burning Glass…
June 5, 2025
More Evidence of How Housing Regulation Is Bad for Housing
The American Dream’s geographic escape hatch is slamming shut. New research reveals that once-affordable sunbelt cities like Phoenix, Dallas, and Miami now mirror the restrictive housing markets of San Francisco…
June 4, 2025
Congress Is Subsidizing the Wrong Neighborhoods
…has poured in — a reported $89 billion by the end of 2022, over six times the amount invested in the red-tape-heavy New Markets Tax Credit, a smaller federal program established…
May 27, 2025
The Surprising Role of Large Developers in Solving the Housing Crunch
…has been driven by a deliberate shift in strategy by the nation’s largest home builders. Over the past decade, they have reoriented their focus toward the entry-level market. In 2014,…
May 14, 2025
Libraries Are Doing the Work—Let’s Fund Them Accordingly
…Public Libraries (MPL). While MPL has long been known for innovation, this initiative raises the bar. The IIR program connects creative professionals with library users to help them build marketable…
May 13, 2025
Out of Work and On the Dole — Is Uncle Sam Contributing to Young Men’s Malaise?
…develop the skills, ambition, and work ethic that would enable them to thrive in the twenty-first century economy.” Work done by Princeton economist Mark Aguiar and his colleagues indicates that…
May 13, 2025
Common-Sense SNAP Reforms Included in House Agriculture Reconciliation Proposal
The House Agriculture committee released budget reconciliation text this week and scheduled a full committee markup. As part of the budget framework passed earlier this year, the Agriculture Committee was tasked with…
May 10, 2025
How Single Room Occupancies Could Be the Answer to NYC’s Housing Crisis
…need to ban such “single room occupancy” housing but that they should be a safe, legal and not rare part of our housing market. Mayor Adams has tried to do…
May 7, 2025
Colleges Must Help Return Student Borrowers to Repayment
…should want to avoid this looming tidal wave of student loan defaults. Borrowers who default see their wages garnished and their tax refunds seized, in addition to a black mark on their…
May 7, 2025
Displacement by Design: How Bad Policy Made Housing Scarce, and How We Can Fix It
…down the income ladder. It’s the same dynamic that keeps both the new and used car markets functioning effectively: Each new addition at the top of the market expands availability…