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February 20, 2025
The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated
…David Grusky, Maximilian Hell, Robert Manduca, Jimmy Narang, “The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940.” Replication files available at https://opportunityinsights.org/data/?geographic_level=0&topic=0&paper_id=546#resource-listing. These results were the basis for…
February 7, 2025
Low-Performing Students Fall Farther Behind the Pack
…that effective literacy programs are implemented. That coordinated research program should be positioned for maximum impact on America’s students, not at maximally supporting academic researchers producing obscure articles published in…
January 7, 2025
Tax Policy Should Prioritize Shoring Up the Family
…one child each would each receive a maximum of around $4,300 in 2025, but if they married they would both qualify for a maximum of over $7,100 (using the schedule for two…
November 1, 2024
Latest Student Loan Cancellation Proposal Could Be Biggest Yet
…eligible for loan cancellation under the latest scheme, and much is left to the subjective determination of bureaucrats at the Education Department (ED). If those bureaucrats adopt a maximalist definition…
August 24, 2024
Harris’s Child Tax Credit Proposal Could Backfire, Perpetuating Poverty
…increased dollar amounts have attracted most of the attention, a key motivation for these proposals is to ensure working families with low incomes receive the maximum credit. Working families who…
June 18, 2024
Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility
…Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, and Finland. The evidence is ambiguous as to whether America’s absolute mobility looks worse than or the same as that of Denmark and the…
June 6, 2024
How New Graduates Can Thrive in a Workplace Dominated by AI
…known since the 1950s is giving way to an era of maximum change. Unsettled political conditions at home are mirrored in conflicts abroad. The integrated global economy is fraying at the same…
May 13, 2024
Do Mothers Have “Societal Support”? Does It Count if It Comes from Neighbors?
…here’s a fact about Israel that’s probably worth more than any pro-family government benefit in Sweden: About 70 percent of Israeli parents get help from grandma or grandpa in caring…
January 12, 2024
Congress Shouldn’t Expand Welfare in Return for Corporate Tax Cuts
…maximum benefit. Adopting the 2021 maximum credit amounts of up to $3,600 would cost upwards of $80 billion per year. Modest reforms to the Child Tax Credit that support working families could…
December 1, 2023
Red States Can Lead the Way on Marriage and Fatherhood
…encouraging all dads — resident and nonresident — to do a good job with their kids while also promoting the institution that maximizes the odds that men will live with…