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March 11, 2025
…the following cost-saving elements: reducing the maximum SNAP benefit, reducing deductions, expanding work requirements, and ending broad based categorical eligibility. In this paper I analyze each of these reform elements…
March 4, 2025
…implement a work mandate. It aligns incentives, leverages motivation, and provides support services that help people on public benefits to achieve their maximum functional capacity. Ultimately, it encourages individuals to…
February 20, 2025
…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
…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…
February 4, 2025
…Tax Credit to $4,200 for children aged to 5 and $3,000 for children aged 6 to 17, compared to the current $2,000 maximum for all eligible children. It would also…
January 30, 2025
…SNAP benefit structure—the maximum benefit levels, the tapering point, the benefit reduction rate, and the exit point—to eliminate benefit cliffs and improve employment outcomes for participants while reducing program costs….
January 7, 2025
…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…
December 11, 2024
…since 2011. However, in eighth-grade science, between 2011 and 2023, of 25 countries, only the UAE, Hong Kong, and Sweden had larger achievement gap growth than the US did. (And…
November 1, 2024
…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…
October 18, 2024
…Credit in four ways. First, they would increase the maximum Child Tax Credit from $2,000 to $3,000, a costly increase. A better idea would be to immediately increase the maximum…