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April 15, 2025
Is There Really Pent-Up Demand for Ten Times the Manufacturing Jobs We Have?
…fully 25% of poll respondents say they’d prefer a factory job to their current job, that suggests massive potential unmet by the current labor market.” However, there’s a problem here….
April 8, 2025
Public Support of Health Insurance Enrollment
…highest payoff reform would lower prices for high-volume medical services through a structured market and incentives for patients to migrate toward the most efficient providers. This reform would lower premiums in…
April 8, 2025
Could A Higher Endowment Tax Pressure Elite Schools To Expand?
…schools subject to the tax fluctuates from year to year due to changes in the market value of endowments and how the IRS counts students, the list is illustrative of the sorts of…
April 4, 2025
President Trump’s Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It’s Also Based on an Error.
…has been dramatic, with the stock market losing nine percent of its value (based on the S&P 500 index at the time of writing) and forecasted probabilities of a recession…
April 3, 2025
Trump’s Tariffs Are a Historic Tax Hike
…must be saving some of its output and income. So, some of the output of foreign nations flows into US markets. Foreign direct and portfolio investments are votes of confidence…
March 31, 2025
Reimagining Federal Education R&D: DARPA for Education
Earlier in my professional life, I was the head of the political science department at Stony Brook University. When the chairs of the arts and science met, someone from the…
March 31, 2025
Tom Cotton Should Go Further: An Endowment Tax Should Not Exclude Big Foundations
…MacArthur and their kin don’t have to rely on either student tuition or federal grants. They are insulated from any market test or political pressure and are “self-perpetuating”; their board…
March 28, 2025
Unfreezing New York’s Projects
…broader real-estate market, the transformation promises more than a physical upgrade; it marks a cultural and economic shift. The plan echoes Jane Jacobs’s 1961 proposal in The Death and Life of…
March 27, 2025
The Looming Debt Crisis, the Trump Tax Cuts, and Medicaid
…mark was followed by eighteen years of declining debt-to-GDP levels. But today, we are facing ever-rising debt. By 2055, our national debt is projected to reach 154 percent of GDP,…
March 25, 2025
Reimagining Federal Education R&D: IES, Workforce Skills, and State Leadership
…what skills adults bring to the job market. Getting state-by-state results could help state leadership identify shortfalls in the skills of their adult population and develop programs and policies to…