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August 18, 2024
…an older couple in Queens having a hard time paying their property taxes can’t decide to let a younger couple with a baby move into their empty bedrooms. It means…
August 16, 2024
On the surface, Kamala Harris’s proposal to provide $25,000 in down-payment assistance to first-time homebuyers looks to be an incentive for upward mobility. Historically, homeownership has been the foundation for wealth creation for…
August 15, 2024
…hedonistic reasons. In explaining why she is childless, Beth Davis, a marketing professional, told The Wall Street Journal that she and her husband “have more time and energy to commit to ourselves,”…
August 1, 2024
…$21 trillion cost would have been seven times the $3 trillion cost of the 2020 CARES Act — the most expensive bill ever signed into law. While in effect, Harris’…
July 29, 2024
…prime-working-age adults who are married is almost three times higher for those who are high income versus those who are low income. Marriage deserts are much more common in poor…
July 14, 2024
…is not just that kids would have a hard time getting jobs, or that they would have to explain their personal situation to their bosses. It is also that kids…
June 26, 2024
…of “reasonable efforts” to keep the children with their families. And finally, caseworkers will have to take into account “social and cultural values at all times” in making such decisions….
June 26, 2024
…Benjamin Glasner. The other is by Paul Krugman of the New York Times. To the Economic Innovation Group’s attempt to articulate a “new consensus” about the American worker, I’d respond in three…
June 23, 2024
…least half a century. Thanks to advances in modern medicine and car safety, these had been declining for some time, but now the rates of suicide, homicide, drug overdoses and…
June 18, 2024
When it comes to education, these have been the best of times and the worst of times. In 2021, Arizona adopted the nation’s first universal education-savings-account (ESA) program. In 2022,…