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August 18, 2024
Why NYC’s Most Affordable Housing May Already Be Available
…New York already has. An antiquated law currently stands in the way of homeowners and renters taking in “unrelated persons” even if a home or apartment has empty bedrooms. Incredibly,…
August 6, 2024
Trump’s Tax Law Diminished Incentives for Charitable Giving, But We Can Fix It
…collateral damage stems from what is otherwise a very good idea: simplifying tax returns for most households. The 2017 tax cuts increased the standard deduction dramatically, thus reducing the number…
July 29, 2024
The Rise of ‘Marriage Deserts’ and What We Can Do About Them
…decades, America has witnessed the rise of what could be called “marriage deserts”: entire neighborhoods where there are persistently low rates of marriage. These stand in contrast to other neighborhoods…
July 24, 2024
Housing and the American Worker
As the American Worker Project analysis shows, real wages have increased over time. Real wages are nominal wages corrected for changes in the price level, and a natural approach to understanding the…
July 23, 2024
How the 2017 Tax Law Made Itemized Charitable Giving a Luxury Good
…itemized deduction for charitable contributions. At the same time, by nearly doubling the standard deduction, it sharply increased the percentage of tax-filing households choosing not to itemize deductions. This report…
July 11, 2024
Exploring Trends in Food Bank Use
…they note is part of the “agency’s Experimental Data Series..[and] may not meet some of the Census Bureau’s statistical quality standards.” [2] Note that statistics from the FSS reflect the…
June 26, 2024
Reducing Racial Disparities in Foster Care Might Endanger Black Children
…suffer? Now Minnesota is dispensing with blunt instruments. Last month, the governor signed a law to codify different standards for the investigation, substantiation and removal processes for disparately affected populations —…
June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
…create new ones. Whether old or new, though, there are certain characteristics that good institutions share. First, they are personal. The past century has featured ambitious attempts to standardize American…
June 18, 2024
Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility
…people’s income relative to that of their parents in two ways. The first measures an individual’s and his parents’ standard of living. This kind of mobility is known as “absolute…
June 18, 2024
Donald Trump is an Outlier on the Right: When It Comes to Fidelity and Marriage, Democrats Face Bigger Problems
…the Republican standard bearer’s marital misbehavior eroded our collective commitment to the values and virtues that sustain the institution of marriage? On the left, journalist Matt Yglesias wondered if Trump’s bad example…