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October 26, 2023
Working from Density
Is the COVID-19-driven surge in remote work temporary or permanent? To assess how the geography of work may evolve, we analyze the pre-pandemic status quo. Casual theorizing might suggest that…
April 4, 2023
Why Foster Children Are Sleeping in Offices and What We Can Do About It
…under Medicaid, amend the Family First Prevention Services Act to provide an exemption from QRTP standards for programs serving youth in the juvenile justice system, and significantly increase federal investment in developing…
December 9, 2022
“Automatic Stimulus”: How It Would Have Increased the Record Unemployment Benefits Paid During the Great Recession and Pandemic
…long-standing pattern of contemporary lawmakers determining when emergency benefits should be paid, some have proposed instead using unemployment rate “triggers” in the future to automatically turn and keep on such…
November 28, 2022
Public School Instructional Offerings and Enrollment Changes: Evidence from Two Years After the Pandemic
…on public school enrollment. From a descriptive standpoint, we find that public school districts that offered the most remote instruction in the 2020–21 school year saw the largest declines in…
February 23, 2022
The Case Against Universal Free Lunch
…that pregnant pigs be provided enough space to stand and turn around—a law that yielded histrionic headlines, such as “Bacon May Disappear in California.”12 I’d love to be proved wrong,…
July 2, 2021
Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
…rates to the public. Adopt an absolute standard—and potentially a purely relative standard—for adjusting poverty thresholds over time. An absolute standard should update thresholds based on the Chained Consumer Price…