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January 2, 2025
AI Will Have a Major Impact on Labor Markets. Here’s How the US Can Prepare
…evolving opportunities and avoid reliving the painful lessons will require better labor market information. A recent American Enterprise Institute (AEI) paper argues we need new data foundations that provide timely, accurate insights…
December 30, 2024
What’s behind the unprecedented rise in homelessness, and how can we reverse it?
…people over the past two years. That represents a 43% increase, which is approximately 10 times as large as the second largest two-year increase on record, when sheltered homelessness grew…
December 30, 2024
Coverage, Counter-cyclicality and Targeting of Work Requirement Waivers in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
…from 1997–2023 and evaluate waiver coverage, counter-cyclicality and targeting. Waiver coverage has grown over time and in December 2023, when the national unemployment rate was 3.5 percent, waivers covered 29…
December 20, 2024
Fixing Inflation, Right-Sizing the Federal Government
…air. In January 1995, Republicans had just won control of both houses for the first time in 42 years. The federal debt had reached 48 percent of gross domestic product…
December 18, 2024
Employers Should Drop Hiring Preferences for “Elite 34” Colleges
…and the New York Times. Jobs like these are the first rung on a ladder that leads Elite 34 graduates to the top echelons of society. Elite 34 graduates would…
December 17, 2024
Make America Smart Again: The Jeopardy Test for Graduation
…of all time, now in its 41st season. Minimized at times as a trivia game, it is far more than that. A study guide for the Jeopardy qualifying test includes lightweight topics such as pop…
December 17, 2024
Industrial Policy and Deficits: Dark Clouds for Democratic Capitalism
…At 80.9 percent, the employment rate is higher than at any time since March 2001, shortly after the employment rate hit its peak of 81.9 percent in April 2000. Everyone…
December 17, 2024
States Should Drop Accreditation Requirements for New Colleges
…Higher Ed Dive, October 10, 2023, https://www.highereddive.com/news/north-carolina-law-forces-colleges-to-change-accreditors-every-cycle/696197/. Jonathan Swan et al., “Five Takeaways from a Rocky 2024 Debut,” The New York Times, May 25, 2023, https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/25/us/politics/takeaways-desantis-2024-twitter.html. Katherine Knott, “DeSantis Challenges…
December 14, 2024
Why the Riskiest Situation NYC Foster Kids Can Face Is Visiting Their Birth Parents
…sight of this maxim. Foster kids being hurt while spending time with their families is not a new phenomenon. A 2018 report by New York City’s Department of Investigation found that a…
December 11, 2024
The Often Overlooked Link Between Drug Use and Family Decline
…sake of their family’s economic prospects and safety, it was important to have a man who was sober most of the time. He would support his family and he would…