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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…
May 7, 2025
Republicans Unveil Plan to Rein in Student Debt and Waste in Higher Education
…borrowing for graduate and professional programs. These loans have enabled institutions to dramatically expand expensive master’s degrees—many of which offer questionable labor market value to students—knowing that federal dollars would…
May 7, 2025
Did ‘China Shock’ Throw Millions of Americans Out of Work?
…you know that the decline was 49 percent in Australia, 34 percent in Canada, 34 percent in Denmark, 38 percent in France, 23 percent in Italy, 32 percent in Japan,…
May 2, 2025
SNAP is About Nutrition: My Response to Zycher
…abundance and will strengthen the Nation’s agricultural economy, as well as result in more orderly marketing and distribution of foods. To alleviate such hunger and malnutrition, a supplemental nutrition assistance…
May 1, 2025
Tariffs Plus AI Makes for a Rocky Job Market. How Should Workers Prepare?
In today’s labor market, few occupations are safe from AI disruption. It’s been a rough month for hiring plans. The market volatility ignited by President Donald Trump’s tariff policies has…
April 30, 2025
Is The Collapse of Blue-Collar Marriage a Foregone Conclusion?
…hard. The U.S. economy saw over 9 million healthcare jobs added to the labor market since 1990, with most of the non-college educated jobs taken in that field by women,…
April 25, 2025
What’s holding women back from starting a family?
…worth marrying. “Inasmuch as there has been less of a norm around marriage, I believe that it has to do with the brutality of the dating market, and the difficulty…