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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…
December 14, 2024
Why the Riskiest Situation NYC Foster Kids Can Face Is Visiting Their Birth Parents
…sight of this maxim. Foster kids being hurt while spending time with their families is not a new phenomenon. A 2018 report by New York City’s Department of Investigation found that a…
December 11, 2024
US Students Best Other Nations—in Achievement Gap Growth
…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 15, 2024
Calibration: Making AI a Partner at Work
…levels—plays a crucial role in maximizing AI’s potential. Workers who can assess their skills and know when to rely on AI saw the greatest productivity gains. In their study involving…
November 14, 2024
Florida, the Forgotten Education-Reform Star
…for serving students and maximizing taxpayer dollars.” “In a moment when education reform has come up against new and significant hurdles,” they conclude, “Florida’s results are promising. We should be…
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…
October 18, 2024
Pro-Marriage Conservatives Should Reject a Per-Child Phase-In of the Child Tax Credit
…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…
September 24, 2024
Household Food Insecurity Rises Again – Inflation, especially for households ineligible for safety net programs, to blame
…combined with adjustments to SNAP benefits to account for inflation, the maximum SNAP benefit increased in nominal terms by an astonishing 46.3 percent from 2019 to 2023. Consistent with this…
September 19, 2024
Government benefit programs already do a lot to help low income families
…work and have no tax liability do not benefit at all from the CTC. Proposals to increase the generosity of the CTC would generally increase the maximum amount and allow…
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…likely reduced men’s wages. With more men single and childless, and for longer, they face less pressure to be breadwinners. That may affect the weight they put on maximizing their…