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October 23, 2024
Work Requirement Waivers Increased FoodShare Caseloads and Costs in Wisconsin
…from absolute. Federal lawmakers allowed states to waive it in certain circumstances, and Wisconsin officials have done so much of the time. The result has been higher FoodShare caseloads and…
October 21, 2024
Dueling Child Tax Credit Proposals: Harris vs. Vance
…incentives, but the Harris plan would be worse for work. We estimate that the Harris proposal would reduce labor supply by 210,000 full-time-equivalent (FTE) jobs by eliminating the earned income phase-in,…
October 21, 2024
US Tariffs Will Not Bring Back Jobs from China
…Governor Tim Walz and Ohio Senator J.D. Vance earlier this month highlighted a point of bipartisan consensus in a heated election contest. After clashing over topics ranging from health care…
October 18, 2024
Harris and Trump Are Equally Silent on the Expanding US Debt
…output for the first time since the US military build-up in the second world war. In 1946, the ratio of debt to annual GDP was 106.1 per cent. The CBO…
October 18, 2024
Pro-Marriage Conservatives Should Reject a Per-Child Phase-In of the Child Tax Credit
…the refundable credit at a rate of $0.15 per dollar of earnings, it would phase in at a rate of $0.15 times the number of children, for example, $0.30 for…
October 16, 2024
11 Ways the Federal Government Is Making It More Difficult to Access Career Pathways
…(such as by operating as a vendor to an eligible provider) compared to just a short time ago. Inversely, a provider that has been failing learners for decades will be…
October 15, 2024
Lefty NYC Council Add-Ons to Mayor’s ‘City of Yes’ Would Worse Housing Crisis
…such demands. It’s time for the city’s elected officials to acknowledge that our perennial “housing crisis” is actually the result of generations of such action plans — from NYCHA to rent stabilization…
October 15, 2024
Why Should the US Wish to Be More Like China?
…to Chinese manufacturing using protectionist measures. To take one example of many, check out this headline and subhead on a New York Times article from this spring: “How China Pulled So Far Ahead…
October 14, 2024
Another Terrible Idea: Abolishing Child Welfare
…children are experiencing longer periods of time living with abusive and neglectful families. These effects—unlike, say, the crime and disorder caused by defunding the police—are largely hidden from public view….
October 11, 2024
It’s time to face up to our social poverty problem
Over the past half-century, virtually all aspects of social life have deteriorated in America. We spend less time with fewer friends, form fewer families and have turned away from organized civic life and religious institutions. We trust…