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March 27, 2025
The Looming Debt Crisis, the Trump Tax Cuts, and Medicaid
…misunderstands how other countries fund their more expansive safety nets. Looking at how countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) tax their citizens, the United States stands…
March 25, 2025
Reimagining Federal Education R&D: IES, Workforce Skills, and State Leadership
…spurred other states to change, serving as a how-to model for best policies and practices. In Louisiana, a stand-out among the 2024 NAEP results, the governor and state superintendent of education…
March 24, 2025
Tax Abatements: The Best-Kept Secret to Revitalizing Struggling Communities—Without Spending Taxpayer Money
…rules, faster permitting, and cost-effective building standards A meaningful property tax abatement that closes the feasibility gap Increased zoning capacity and flexibility to allow greater density across more areas When…
March 12, 2025
Why Alabama Needs The Success Sequence
…they will make these three major decisions. Alabama could achieve this by incorporating the sequence into middle and high school curricula. It can be implemented through financial literacy standards, health, or…
March 11, 2025
The American Dream in Ohio depends on stronger Buckeye families
…below-average standing matters because strong, stable families are a powerful predictor of upward mobility. Harvard economist Raj Chetty and his colleagues at Opportunity Insights have underscored the connection between upward…
March 11, 2025
An Evaluation of Cost Saving Reforms of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
…reform proposals. As one example, I show how a combination of elements—expanding work requirements and eliminating the standard deduction and broad based categorical eligibility—can balance the goals of targeting and…
March 3, 2025
It’s Time for Time Limits on Public Housing
Like other Cabinet agencies, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is moving quickly to undo long-standing progressive policies. New HUD Secretary Scott Turner has asserted that the agency is now “DEI-free.” Perhaps even more…
February 27, 2025
Powering AI: The Energy Workforce Crisis No One Is Talking About
…energy transition and industrial revitalization will face continued headwinds. The rapid rise of AI and the potential it holds for higher living standards and longer, healthier lives depends on a…
February 27, 2025
How Progressive Policy Distorted the Housing Market
…of The Atlantic, does not directly criticize the assumptions behind such long-standing public policy in his new book, Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Back the Engine of American Opportunity….
February 25, 2025
Ohio Ranks Only 29th In The Family Structure Index
…ago. By this standard, Ohio is in trouble. Consider these three rankings: Ohio ranks 3rd for deaths of despair (suicide, or drug or alcohol-related deaths). Ohio ranks 15th for child poverty,…