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November 21, 2024
A Consensus on Common-Sense Education Reform
…on personalized learning tools where proven effective. Teacher quality requires strengthening through national standards and targeted incentives. Early education and community college programs need quality-focused expansion. Parent and community engagement…
November 20, 2024
End Federal Loans for Graduate School
…similar metrics. Reformers should consider creating protections for private student lenders to employ such underwriting practices, which would encourage the market to grow. With the national debt standing at nearly…
October 21, 2024
Dueling Child Tax Credit Proposals: Harris vs. Vance
JD Vance and Kamala Harris have at least one thing in common: proposals to expand the child tax credit (CTC). Currently, the CTC offers households up to $2,000 per child…
September 16, 2024
A Pyrrhic Victory Against Student Loan Default
…Congress created income-driven repayment (IDR) plans in the 1990s, though they only entered widespread use in the early 2010s. Unlike the standard “mortgage-style” fixed repayment plan, in which students pay…
May 30, 2024
Building a High Tech Workforce for the Future
…to retrain as AI use specialists. In March, at a meeting organized by NYU economist Dr. Julia Lane, AEI, and Stanford University’s Digital Economy Lab, a workshop of senior economists…
April 10, 2024
Biden Irresponsibly Encourages Borrowers to Enroll in SAVE Plan
…of dollars (at least) without explicit Congressional authorization. While establishing standing will be critical to the success of this suit, their argument is compelling: Forgiveness will negatively affect their tax…
April 9, 2024
The Child Tax Credit: My Long-Read Q&A with Kevin Corinth
…this new plan affect that, the Wyden-Smith plan? There’s a pretty large standard deduction. So if you don’t have earnings of, say, $25,000, then you don’t pay any federal income…
December 8, 2023
Room for Compromise on the Hot Foods Act
… As it currently stands, SNAP allows recipients to purchase “any food or food product for home consumption except alcohol, tobacco, hot foods, or hot food products ready for immediate consumption…” However,…
November 30, 2023
A Valuable New Perspective on America’s War on Poverty
…of Americans now live in poverty based on President Johnson’s initial standards. And President Johnson’s War on Poverty based on absolute 1960s living standards is largely over and a success….
September 18, 2023
Students’ Lack of Basic Knowledge of US History and Civics Remains a National Embarrassment
…in 10 questions correctly. Among those under the age of 45, only one in five pass, which says a lot about the debased standards of common knowledge expected of students…