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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…
May 14, 2025
An Evaluation of Cost-Saving Reforms to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
…elements: reducing the maximum SNAP benefit, reducing deductions, expanding work requirements, and ending broad-based categorical eligibility. I analyze each of these reforms, focusing on the consequences for the SNAP benefit…
May 7, 2025
Did ‘China Shock’ Throw Millions of Americans Out of Work?
…41 percent in the Netherlands, 39 percent in Spain, 44 percent in Sweden, and 52 percent in the United Kingdom.[1] In fact, manufacturing as a share of employment had already…
May 5, 2025
What’s in House Republicans’ Student Loan Overhaul
…been preferable, the proposed maximums are a good start. Changes to repayment plans For new borrowers, there will be two repayment plan options: a standard plan with level payments over…
April 25, 2025
A baby bonus is the wrong response to declining fertility
…the sake of illustration, consider the maximum additional amount of various tax credits and transfers a new child can make a family eligible to receive over their first 18 years…
April 17, 2025
Turn Public Service Loan Forgiveness into a State Block Grant
…have actively encouraged students to maximize their borrowing in order to squeeze more money out of PSLF. Moreover, the heavy subsidy PSLF offers to public-service-oriented fields enables states to add or maintain…
March 11, 2025
An Evaluation of Cost Saving Reforms of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
…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
A Model for Effective and Reasonable Work Requirements
…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
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…