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October 10, 2024
…have been built by the private market without subsidies. Studies show that for every 100 LIHTC units built, private construction falls by up to the same amount. Cost: The average…
October 9, 2024
…not do it alone and would rely on a handpicked team, AI, and other tools, to provide support. Ultimately, a transparent marketplace with reviews and recommendations would not allow weak…
October 9, 2024
…the labor market is less fluid than many economists had thought, and it is harder for workers specialized in one sector with declining opportunities—in the case of trade, in import-competing…
October 8, 2024
…supply and demand subsidies has often led to unintended market distortions. Take, for example, the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, which provided easy credit and generous subsidies. While…
October 3, 2024
…students in high-quality programs such as law or medicine could easily secure financing from the private market. But privatizing graduate student loans would end the federal subsidy that expensive graduate programs of…
October 3, 2024
…like suicide, drug overdoses, and alcohol-related deaths, along with higher risks of workplace injuries. Of particular concern is the decline of marriage rates among these men, a key marker for…
October 3, 2024
…trade and of allowing markets to shape US industrial and employment composition. But the protectionism of the Trump and Biden administrations has not succeeded and likely will not succeed at…
October 2, 2024
…is not to get government to replace the private housing market—which has enabled 65 percent of Americans to become homeowners—but for government to stand aside and let the private market work….
October 2, 2024
…century labor market. For low-income students especially, college has been sold as a path to the middle class. As a result, the share of the population 25 and older with…
September 30, 2024
…White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA) laid a substantial foundation for subsequent academic articles. We found a marked increase in our research productivity post-service, evidenced by publications in economics…