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Refocusing the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation on Achieving Deep Cost Reductions
…should make maximum use of a powerful existing tool—the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, or CMMI—to cut health entitlement expenditures. In 1980, combined federal spending on Medicare and Medicaid was…
Commentary
Time Limits and Work Requirements Would Improve Subsidized Housing Programs
…deep and long-lasting. In the voucher program, recipient families pay 30% of their monthly income toward rent, and the federal government pays the rest, up to a maximum rent level…
Blog Post
Tariffs Cannot Fully Replace the Income Tax
…taxable imports by 95 percent, leaving little for tariffs to tax. Even a tariff calibrated to maximize revenue would still fall short. At an elasticity of -2.5, the revenue-maximizing effective…
Commentary
Young Men’s Earnings over the Long Run – An Update
…have reduced the burdens on men to maximize their earnings in order to bear the responsibilities of breadwinning. This lessened responsibility, in turn, has reduced men’s incentives to invest in…
Commentary
The Child and Dependent Care Tax Credit Should Not Subsidize Stay-at-Home Parents
…dependent adults unable to care for themselves). The maximum eligible childcare cost is $3,000 for a family with one child and $6,000 for a family with two or more children….
Commentary
Major Changes Coming to SNAP in 2026
…those who were previously living in an area that received a waiver of work requirements. The OBBBA expanded the maximum age of non-disabled SNAP adults subject to work requirements from…
Blog Post
Improving Medicare Program Integrity
…has directed CMS to administer Medicare’s traditional fee-for-service (FFS) option as an open network, with patients given maximum freedom to choose their providers. This design allows nearly all appropriately credentialed…
Commentary
The Policy Lessons from Minnesota’s Massive Welfare Fraud
…egregious flaws in the US welfare system. In too many ways, that system is designed to maximize federal spending and minimize accountability for results. That doesn’t absolve the Minnesota perpetrators,…
Commentary
Trump Family Policy Fails to Deliver at the One-Year Mark
…receive the federal deposit. In addition to Trump Accounts, the topped-up Child Tax Credit permanently expanded the maximum credit by $200 and indexed it to inflation. However, this modest change…
Blog Post
AI Has Come for K–12 Education
…AI Education Project will argue for the motion “Maximizing School Improvement by 2035 Means Integrating AI into Classrooms Today” while Amplify’s Dan Meyer and Jake Tawney of Great Hearts Academies…
Blog Post
The Real Math of Survival?
…again. Let’s try and recreate his total, using the 2023 data for married-couple parents with no child age 6 or older. That will maximize the share of spending going to…
Commentary
Congress Should Restore Local Autonomy Over Homeless Aid
…communities local autonomy over their response to homelessness, in effect that may not have been possible. If the administration had rewritten the scoring rubric to provide maximum local autonomy under…