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October 5, 2023
Changing the Official Poverty Measure Would Help Rich States and Hurt Poor States
…I education grants; Special Education Grants; the Individuals with Disabilities Act; the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children; the Community Development Block Grant; and the New Markets…
August 22, 2023
Is Paid Leave a Pro-Growth Policy?
…would also point to a 2017 literature review that found the impacts of parental leave on female labor market outcomes range from “negligible to weakly positive.” Sticking with mandated benefits for a…
July 26, 2023
How Worker Benefits Turn into Welfare
…into the UI system, contradicting its social insurance marketing. As the massive pandemic expansions displayed as never before, that also removed an important restraint on the scale of benefit increases—that…
July 25, 2023
Not Just Tulsa
…were doing blacks a favor by including them in these programs. Many then viewed public housing as desirable quarters. As Edward Banfield and Martin Meyerson wrote in their landmark book…
July 10, 2023
Reforming the EITC to Reduce Single Parenthood and Ease Work-Family Balance
…individual earnings rather than the earnings of the tax unit. This change would not affect single beneficiaries, but it would markedly alter the benefits available to married couples. Under current…
July 7, 2023
With Affirmative Action Gone, We Should Focus Admissions Policies on Poverty
If history is any guide, Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard won’t mark the end of the struggle over the constitutionality of race-conscious policies. It won’t even mark…
June 30, 2023
Democrats Call Biden’s Economy “Savage” in Attempt to Revive Child Tax Credit
…in the job market” have grown. Another noted how in 2021, her family could afford a vacation yet today was straining to afford children’s shoes. Why are these Democrats bashing Biden’s economy in the…
June 27, 2023
House Republican Plan Penalizes Marriage
…“amazingly large.” Specifically, “Public assistance caseloads have declined by half since their peak in 1994. . . . Labor market participation among single mothers with young children—the group historically most likely…
June 23, 2023
SNAP Can Improve Nutrition, Help Farmers, and Support the Environment
…one year. According to Wall Street Journal reporting, snack companies are doubling down on their snacking strategy, while other traditional food companies are looking to enter the snack food market…
June 7, 2023
Don’t Give Away the Farm Bill
…the Thrifty Food plan to demonstrate the cost of a healthy diet, helping families find nutritious food on a budget. It serves as the benchmark for food stamps, also called…