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May 7, 2025
Did ‘China Shock’ Throw Millions of Americans Out of Work?
…edited by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch, and Gavin Wright. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ISBN-9780511132971.Ba652-103210.1017/ISBN-9780511132971.Ba652-1032. Estimates of agricultural employment…
April 28, 2025
Letter to the Editor: Sugary Treats Shouldn’t Be on the SNAP Menu
…their own money. The rationale for restricting SNAP purchases lies in ensuring that this taxpayer-funded program is aligned with its purpose. President Richard Nixon nationalized the food-stamp program in 1973 to address…
March 31, 2025
Reimagining Federal Education R&D: DARPA for Education
…to give the easy problems to physicists.” I always (and wrongly) attributed this to Richard Feynman (an unimpeachable source). I was never questioned about the quote’s origin, so I kept…
March 17, 2025
Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood
…the rules. But the data paint a different picture; and it’s getting much harder to ignore. In his landmark 2022 book “Of Boys and Men,” Richard Reeves chronicled the falling…
January 21, 2025
President Trump’s USDA Should Fix Food Stamp Work Requirement Waivers
…during those times. Source: Richard V. Burkhauser, Kevin Corinth, Thomas O’Rourke, and Angela Rachidi, “Coverage, Counter-Cyclicality and Targeting of Work Requirement Waivers in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,” Working Paper…
January 17, 2025
Reforming Work Requirement Waivers in SNAP
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December 30, 2024
Coverage, Counter-cyclicality and Targeting of Work Requirement Waivers in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Abstract Non-disabled, working age adults without children are required to work 20 hours per week in order to maintain eligibility for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program. However, states may waive…
December 10, 2024
Fighting in-work poverty: the minimum wage versus in-work benefits
Abstract We review evidence on the effectiveness of the minimum wage versus in-work benefit policies in reducing poverty in OECD countries. The most credible evidence suggests that raising the minimum…
November 14, 2024
The Rotting of the College Board
…rigged in favor of the well-to-do. In 2003, University of California President Richard Atkinson gave a public address discussing the trend among wealthier families to pay for test prep, suggesting…
October 23, 2024
The College Enrollment Plunge Is the Biden Administration’s Disaster
…the time, Richard Cordray, was a darling of progressive advocacy groups gunning for loan forgiveness—but he had no experience in financial aid administration. Now, the chickens have come home to roost. Hundreds…