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May 7, 2025
Workforce Participation for Older Americans: Warning Lights Flashing
…trending down. The faltering trends for older workers stand in contrast to those for the rest of the US labor force. LFPRs for US youth (the 15–24s) are higher today…
May 5, 2025
What’s in House Republicans’ Student Loan Overhaul
…where lawmakers have proposed their own set of student loan reforms that differ on some points. However, the policies in the House package stand a better chance of becoming law than any…
April 28, 2025
You Autor Know
…smaller job loss totals using their estimates. As an example, we can compare two CZs with import exposure differing by a standard deviation, and otherwise plug in the same numbers…
April 28, 2025
House Republicans’ Proposed Repayment Plan Fixes Vexing Student Loan Problem
…nearly a dozen different loan repayment plans and create just two: a standard repayment plan and an entirely new income-driven repayment (IDR) plan. In addition to simplification, the proposal aims…
April 24, 2025
In Opposing Last Month’s Continuing Resolution, Nearly All Democrats Voted to Shut Down Welfare Checks, Too
…tax bills, added to unrelated legislation, or passed as stand-alone legislation.” Since it was created in 1996, TANF has been extended on a long-term basis only once, in legislation covering fiscal years…
April 24, 2025
Not Local Enough: The Montgomery County Public Schools Case
…books on LGBT themes. The case appears, on the surface, to reverse long-standing views of the role of local government. Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, defended…
April 17, 2025
Turn Public Service Loan Forgiveness into a State Block Grant
…more often about protecting professionals in the field from competition than truly improving standards. While proponents argue that PSLF encourages graduates to choose careers in public service, the incentives are more complex….
April 15, 2025
Utah Hands Parents the Keys to the App Store
…trusted turned out to be little more than window dressing. Stories like this are heartbreaking, and all too common. As parents and policymakers, we can’t stand by while a digital…
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….