Welcome to Our Research Archive
Search and filter by content type, issue area, author, and keyword
August 5, 2023
Rent Control ‘Shabbifying’ NY’s Housing As Owners Feel the Squeeze
…matters even worse, barring rent increases for major improvements, lest they enable the alleged ill of gentrification. But the details of Gotham’s housing maintenance woes should get far more attention….
August 4, 2023
The Racial Wealth Gap: Myths and Realities
…mattered. Black people were viewed as a contagion.” Indeed, one study that comprehensively covered this issue concluded that the vast majority of black-owned housing were accurately classified. It concluded: “Our results…
August 3, 2023
Philanthropists Discover the Value of “Sunsetting”
…E. Simon and his wife Carol, the foundation has given away almost $300 million to the causes that mattered to them—faith, family and education. It has made some 13,000 grants…
August 3, 2023
Another Pandemic Legacy: Removing the EITC’s Work and Earnings Requirement
Since its origin in the 1970s, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has been the premier federal program promoting and rewarding work by low-income adults. As displayed below, taxpayers have…
August 3, 2023
Does Money (and Economic Growth) Buy Happiness?
…US, well done. Time to dial things down. Less work, more leisure. But maybe not. A 2021 analysis by Matthew A. Killingsworth, a senior fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School,…
August 2, 2023
The Best Predictor of Happiness in America? Marriage
…Other factors do matter — including income, educational achievement, race, and geography — but marital status is most influential when it comes to predicting happiness in the study. “This difference…
August 1, 2023
Can AI Make People Want to Have Children?
…images of themselves in wedding dresses or pregnant in maternity wear. Remini will even serve up family portraits showing the user with AI-generated babies.” In principle, of course, people have…
August 1, 2023
How the Middle Class Is Faring: My Long-Read Q&A with Jeremy Horpedahl
…things, then you’re going to have to have two earners. Because in the math, you mentioned 62 weeks, from one earner, that is not mathematically possible to do in a…
July 30, 2023
26 Miles of Scaffolding Blights NYC’s Public Housing, Some Up for 10 Years
…expect the Department of Buildings, now targeting commercial property owners, to start levying those $10,000 fines on NYCHA, as well-deserved as they might be. They’d only make matters worse by…
July 28, 2023
It Really Is More Expensive to Give Everyone $1 Than to Give Some People $1
In a piece from last year, Matt Bruenig of the People’s Policy Project argues (in the title of the piece) “Universal Benefits Cost Less Than Means-Tested Benefits.” He lays out his central…