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June 5, 2025
More Evidence of How Housing Regulation Is Bad for Housing
…regulations have impeded homebuilding for decades, making housing in many such cities unnecessarily expensive and disrupting the historical economic process where people raise their living standards by moving to where…
June 4, 2025
Congress Is Subsidizing the Wrong Neighborhoods
…incentive for long-term investment in economically disadvantaged communities that were designated by governors as so-called opportunity zones, subject to federal standards based on the communities’ median income and official poverty…
May 28, 2025
An Evaluation of Approaches to Cut and Reform SNAP
…give us the highlights of what you found? Sure. So, first, and probably the clearest and easiest thing they could do, though not necessarily from a political standpoint, would be…
May 19, 2025
The Case for Shifting More Welfare Costs to States
…to swollen caseloads, as it subsidizes state policy choices that promote greater benefit receipt. Examples of such policy choices include waiving work requirements, adopting broader eligibility standards (such as “broad-based…
May 14, 2025
Libraries Are Doing the Work—Let’s Fund Them Accordingly
…categories align more traditionally with “bridgebuilding” definitions, we found some of the most compelling examples in the first: access to information, resources, and experiences. One library that stands out is…
May 14, 2025
Graduation in the Time of COVID: The Weakened Relationship with Chronic Absenteeism
…same kinds of students as it did before the pandemic. It is also possible that districts have eased de facto graduation standards to keep graduation rates high despite higher absenteeism….
May 13, 2025
Common-Sense SNAP Reforms Included in House Agriculture Reconciliation Proposal
…reduce redundant programming. A few key areas left unaddressed in the reconciliation bill text involve establishing nutrition standards in SNAP, addressing benefit cliffs, and eliminating the use of broad-based categorical eligibility by states to expand…
May 12, 2025
To Improve Student Outcomes, Focus On Classroom Practice, Not Policy
…instruction. This wasn’t teacher failure—it was a systemic failure to train educators in what works. To be clear, teaching and learning cannot be divorced from education policymaking. Structural reforms—standardized testing,…
May 7, 2025
Colleges Must Help Return Student Borrowers to Repayment
…Department’s student aid dashboard to educate themselves about repayment options and ensure their loans are in good standing. Schools are encouraged to “focus their initial outreach on students who are delinquent on…
May 7, 2025
Displacement by Design: How Bad Policy Made Housing Scarce, and How We Can Fix It
Musical chairs is one of the first games we play as children. The rules are simple: there are fewer chairs than players. When the music stops, someone ends up standing….