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October 27, 2023
Food Insecurity in the US and Inflation
…2023 from a peak of 11.4 percent in August 2022. This should alleviate some of the strain on low-income households and allow food security rates to stabilize in 2023. …
October 17, 2023
What Poor Children Need
When it comes to helping poor children in America grow up to enjoy successful adult lives, progressives and conservatives each have half the truth on their side. There is strong…
October 12, 2023
The GOP Should Be the Party of Parents
…Garnett and Michael Q. McShane recently noted in these pages (“The School-Choice Moment,” August 28), legislative sessions in 2023 alone saw significant educational-choice bills passed in Iowa, Utah, Arkansas, Florida,…
September 23, 2023
Did Pandemic Unemployment Benefits Increase Unemployment? Evidence from Early State-level Expirations
Abstract During the 2021 pandemic year, the generosity of Unemployment Insurance benefits was expanded (Federal Pandemic Unemployment Compensation [FPUC]) and eligibility for benefits was broadened (Pandemic Unemployment Assistance [PUA]). These…
August 22, 2023
Is Paid Leave a Pro-Growth Policy?
…of some problem in the market), and benefit some groups at the expense of others. Indeed, as my AEI colleague Michael Strain has written, “Such micromanagement would almost surely result in…
August 9, 2023
The CTC Work Incentive Works
…a proponent of the CTC Sen. Michael Bennet cited statistics claiming that nearly 80 percent of those affected by the expiration of the expanded CTC were already working. He went on…
July 26, 2023
How Worker Benefits Turn into Welfare
…same guaranteed minimum benefit in each state, again regardless of any individual’s prior earnings. Supporters argue the uniform payments protected systems straining under record claims. They have a point that…
June 30, 2023
Democrats Call Biden’s Economy “Savage” in Attempt to Revive Child Tax Credit
…recent Senate Finance Committee hearing, Sen. Michael Bennet (D-CO) thundered that parents are currently “scraping by … in this savage economy,” burdened with “some of the lowest economic mobility” and “almost the…
June 14, 2023
Why Behavioral Requirements Are Vital to Welfare Programs
…restriction successfully. The aversion to changing behaviors extends to government campaigns that seek to influence family planning. Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s efforts to discourage teenage pregnancy were…
January 7, 2023
Personal Responsibility, Not Victimhood, Is the Path to Success
…their economic prospects are worse than whites.” Michael Tanner of the Cato Institute believes that until we address structural “issues [such] as a biased criminal justice system, a failing public school system,…