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January 23, 2025
Four College Enrollment Trends to Watch
…the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) relaunch led applications for federal Pell Grants and student loans to drop by 325,000 (nine percent) among high school seniors and other first-time applicants…
January 21, 2025
How Trump Can Permanently Fix the Student Loan Program
…loans, without congressional approval. Biden officials judged that they did not have enough time to finalize the loan cancellation plans before the new administration takes over. Conservatives can take a victory…
January 21, 2025
President Trump’s USDA Should Fix Food Stamp Work Requirement Waivers
…how many states exploit the waiver eligibility criteria in this way, our research found that waiver coverage has increased over time. Figure 1 shows just how common waivers have become,…
January 17, 2025
Regulations Keep Millions of Bedrooms Empty During a Housing Crisis
…City, that number is estimated to be 30 percent of the 177,000 subsidized units. The time when extended families lived under one roof may be in the past. However, there’s…
January 16, 2025
Should We Believe the Economic Data or Americans’ “Lyin’” Eyes? The Answer Is Yes.
…United States. Inflation-adjusted median family income is at an all-time high. Median wealth is, likewise, at an all-time high. Only in 2020 and 2021 were the median weekly earnings of full-time male and female workers higher. The unemployment…
January 14, 2025
The Pornography Industry Should Not Be Allowed This Much Access to Our Children
…seeking out and viewing these types of harmful online sexual materials. It is time for our culture to come to terms with the inconsistency of valuing the dignity of women…
January 7, 2025
More Skilled Immigrants for More Economic Growth
…support for removing green card country caps for skilled immigrants, a position aligned with Silicon Valley but controversial among some Trump supporters. Amid this debate, it’s a good time to…
January 6, 2025
This Child Welfare Rule Puts Social Justice Over Safety
…the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), described one of her agency’s new rules to Time in 2023. The rule lets states create alternative licensing processes for relatives of a child…
January 6, 2025
Congress Can Block Student Loan Cancellation—Forever
Over the holiday season, the Biden administration withdrew two pending regulations to unilaterally cancel hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of student loans. Officials evidently judged that the administration would not have time to…
January 3, 2025
Thanks, Joe Manchin
…with special emphasis on policies undermining the incentive to work. The stimulus law provided child tax credit checks from the IRS to nonworking adults for the first time. It also…