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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…
April 9, 2025
Trump’s Tariff Formula Is Still Wrong. Maybe That’s Why No One Will Admit They Created It.
Last Friday, we showed that the Trump Administration’s tariff formula contained an error that made its calculated tariffs up to four times too large. The entire premise of the administration’s…
April 8, 2025
Discussing President Trump’s tariff formula miscalculation: Corinth on CNN News Central
Kevin Corinth, Deputy Director of the Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility, discusses President Trump’s tariff formula alongside AEI’s Stan Veuger on CNN News Central….
April 4, 2025
President Trump’s Tariff Formula Makes No Economic Sense. It’s Also Based on an Error.
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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…
October 16, 2024
Kevin Corinth: Addressing Social Capital Poverty in America
Despite improvements in material living standards, the erosion of social connections, civic engagement, and community ties has led to a decline in overall social wellbeing. New research reveals a complex…
October 11, 2024
It’s time to face up to our social poverty problem
…on the incomes and employment of individuals, families, groups and regions — and can therefore say a lot about changes in income, inequality and material living standards. In contrast, we…
September 19, 2024
Government benefit programs already do a lot to help low income families
…the standard deduction and earned income deduction. The excess shelter cost deduction does not apply given their rental payment after housing assistance is less than half of adjusted income. Medicaid…
August 29, 2024
The Distribution of Social Capital across Individuals and its Relationship to Income
…with a 0.23 standard deviation increase in social capital for those with the lowest levels of market income, while an extra $10,000 in government transfer income is associated with a…