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December 11, 2025
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…
November 27, 2025
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…
November 25, 2025
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…
October 15, 2025
Don’t Choose Your Own Adventure: Understanding Middle-Class Earnings Trends
…fertility left an increasing share of young men without family responsibilities, which could have reduced their incentives to maximize earnings and invest in human capital. Solutions to the economic problems…
September 9, 2025
SNAP Prioritizes Nutrition in New Administration
…with no other income can receive a maximum benefit of $975 per month. Currently, participants can purchase any food or beverage for home consumption using SNAP benefits, with the exception of alcohol,…
July 17, 2025
Even after the One Big Beautiful Bill, Loopholes Allow Illegal Alien Adults to Receive Welfare and Other Benefits
…States.” That goal, the order states, is advanced by ensuring “to the maximum extent permitted by law, that no taxpayer-funded benefits go to unqualified aliens.” Prior to enactment of the…
June 25, 2025
De-Skilling the Knowledge Economy
…run, we’re all dead.”23 In the short and medium term, we can expect disruption and anxiety and should prepare for both. What policies should we consider to maximize positive outcomes…
June 24, 2025
Public Housing and Rental Subsidies
…restrictions “play a key role in limiting the multifamily housing supply. Relaxing density restrictions, either alone or in combination with relaxing maximum-height restrictions and allowing multifamily housing, is the most…
June 16, 2025
Better Boys: The Difference Good Dads Make
…launch fatherhood initiatives across America. Following in the footsteps of bipartisan initiatives in Florida and Tennessee, state leaders across the country should work to maximize the odds that all children…
May 28, 2025
An Evaluation of Approaches to Cut and Reform SNAP
…reducing the maximum SNAP benefit. Currently for a family of three, the maximum monthly benefit is $768 per month. One option is to reduce that amount, and actually in 2021…