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December 5, 2024
Inflation Reduction Act Offers a General Lesson against Industrial Policy
…to additional investment, faster productivity and wage growth, and higher living standards for American households. This would cost around $400 billion over a decade. Congress should make up that lost…
November 25, 2024
Don’t Write Off Workforce Pell Grants
…funding, workforce programs would have to meet high standards, including a minimum 70 percent completion rate and a 70 percent job placement rate. Critically, there’s also an earnings standard: one…
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…
November 15, 2024
JD Vance is Right: Reduce the Power of Big Foundations to Help Charity
…percent set in the Tax Reform Act of 1969. That super-low tax rate (especially compared to the standard 15 percent capital gains rate) has encouraged the tax-advantaged growth of private…
November 1, 2024
Latest Student Loan Cancellation Proposal Could Be Biggest Yet
…owning a collective $740 billion (nearly half the federal loan portfolio) are enrolled in IDR plans. Theoretically, under ED’s standard, most of that money could be forgiven right away. ED…
November 1, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Policy Book Doesn’t Even Mention Immigration
…given Harris’s Aug. 10 “pivot” to take a supposedly firmer stance on immigration. That omission may help explain Harris’s nonanswers and shifting of blame when pressed on immigration during an Oct. 17 interview with…
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…
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 15, 2024
Lefty NYC Council Add-Ons to Mayor’s ‘City of Yes’ Would Worse Housing Crisis
…to Bill de Blasio’s 200,000 affordable units “created or preserved.” As it stands, New York City has more — far more — of its housing protected from market forces than any other…