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October 5, 2023
Changing the Official Poverty Measure Would Help Rich States and Hurt Poor States
…Part D subsidies. For example, the maximum income a family of four could have and still receive SNAP is currently just under $41,000 in every state except Alaska and Hawaii….
September 25, 2023
A Bad Bipartisan Housing Bill: Connecting the Dots on the Helper Act
…county could add an estimated 900,000 additional housing units annually (depending on the maximum allowed density) for the next 30 to 40 years. This moderate density increase would expand the…
September 18, 2023
There’s an Easy Fix That Would Solve Our Housing Crisis: Light Touch Density
…country, an estimated 930,000 additional housing units could be created annually (depending on the maximum allowed density) over the next 30 to 40 years. This moderate density increase would expand…
August 24, 2023
Baby Boom Or Bust
…we simply just trace this to the first mitzvah in the Garden of Eden, there’s a lot more going on here than religious teaching. “There is an element of contagiousness,”…
August 23, 2023
Labor Department Report Finds Pandemic Unemployment Program Had a Staggering 36 Percent Improper Payment Rate
On August 21, the US Department of Labor (DOL) released its long-awaited “improper payment report” on the troubled Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program. PUA was an unprecedented federal unemployment benefit program that…
August 14, 2023
The Narcissism of Small Diffidences
…were maximized with skill-building camps.” She said, “I began to really second-guess what I knew to be true about being a parent” and spared her son from doing chores as…
August 10, 2023
The Real Reason People Leave Religion
…designed to maximize individual accomplishment as defined by professional and financial success. Such a system leaves precious little time or energy for forms of community that don’t contribute to one’s…
August 9, 2023
The CTC Work Incentive Works
…returned to its pre-pandemic form, phasing-in at 15 percent of earnings beyond $2,500, up to a maximum of $1,600 in a refundable CTC per child and a non-refundable $2,000 per…
August 7, 2023
The Right Way to Fix Public Broadcasting
…tried to end CPB funding — and the system, still citing Big Bird (which has flown to HBO Max), rallied bipartisan support. Conservatives are not wrong to seek to correct the…
August 3, 2023
Another Pandemic Legacy: Removing the EITC’s Work and Earnings Requirement
…unemployment benefits, food stamps, and even disability and other benefits paid in lieu of working to rise as families seek to maximize their benefit income when they lack earnings—but are…