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September 27, 2024
Justice at Any Cost?
…who identify as lgbtq+, and often youth with significant behavioral challenges as well.” Even if a few insurers return to the market, the foster-care system will be hopelessly distorted. The…
September 25, 2024
The Costs of Inaction: Economic Risks from Housing Unaffordability
…and a homeless crisis in many areas. Nationally, we have had a sellers’ housing market since 2012 and we remain in a strong sellers’ market today, especially at the low…
September 23, 2024
Toward a Potential Grand Bargain for the Nation
…of recommendations that we believe, on balance, would greatly strengthen the country and improve people’s lives. We believe in the importance of a market economy. Free markets have led to…
September 23, 2024
The Kamala Harris Plan for More Housing Shortages
…will result in higher prices. This effect on prices is because we’re currently in a strong sellers’ market, which exists when the number of months it would take to sell…
September 21, 2024
Why Is Race Still a Factor in Adoption?
…Civil Rights Act, according to Mark Fiddler, an attorney who focuses on adoption and foster care. But Tucker and her employer don’t seem to realize this or don’t care. She offers…
September 20, 2024
How Public Housing Fueled Boston’s Busing Riots
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the North’s worst episode of school desegregation–related racial violence: Boston’s busing riots. Mobs hurled rocks at buses filled with black students newly assigned…
September 19, 2024
Government benefit programs already do a lot to help low income families
…is the Section 8 Housing Choice Voucher program, and assumes a payment standard of $2,082 per month, which is equal to the county-weighted average of Fair Market Rents across all…
September 17, 2024
The Blue State Family Exodus: Families Are Migrating to Red and Purple States
…be more valuable to a family than safe streets and decent housing for middle-class earners (a point acknowledged by Kristof himself). Parental leave will never outweigh a good job market. School choice…
September 17, 2024
Back to School: Shedding Light on Risks and Harm in the Private Student Lending and Servicing Market
…Administration to cancel student loans despite no legal pathway to do so. But the private student loan industry is a well- functioning consumer credit market. Read the full testimony here….
September 12, 2024
Surgeon general’s dour picture of parenthood misses the mark
…children involves more worry than joy. The surgeon general describes parenthood not only in terms of “heightened stressors” but also as a state of life marked by “isolation and loneliness,” “financial strain,”…