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April 5, 2024
What’s Wrong with the US Economy? Anything?
…of what Americans are experiencing right now: Employment data for some time now is consistent with what we refer to as a 3-2 condition — when unemployment rate stays in…
April 4, 2024
Biden’s ‘Tax Cut’ Rhetoric Is Really Just Code For Benefit Increases
…Democrats temporarily expanded the Child Tax Credit in 2021 to provide payments to non-workers for the first time, the resulting deluge of new benefit payouts turned the IRS into America’s number one welfare agency. The…
April 3, 2024
School Absenteeism Has Become A Big Problem. But We Can Do Something About It.
Chronic absenteeism has become a pressing challenge for the nation’s schools. The stories are ubiquitous, featuring headlines like last week’s New York Times’s front-pager “Why School Absences Have ‘Exploded’ Almost Everywhere.” In…
April 3, 2024
Feds Should Take a Big Step Back on Student Loans
…of the lending program isn’t possible in the current political environment, it’s what I hope Republican lawmakers will be considering the next time a political opportunity arises. And the silver…
March 31, 2024
Can Local Journalism Be Saved?
…of nursing and retirement homes. As the Roanoke Times shrank, the donors were rebuffed in their effort to persuade the Times’s owner, Lee Enterprises, to expand reporting. (Lee had bought the paper from…
March 30, 2024
Preventing Weed Smoking — Not More Weed Shops — Is What NYC Needs Now
…warehouse. As the state’s General Services Commission, per order of Gov. Hochul, undertakes a 30-day “top-down review” of cannabis retailing, it’s time for a fresh — and realistic — restart….
March 28, 2024
Finally, a Chance to Start Getting Higher Ed Right
…higher education, even for voters and policymakers who have neither the time nor the inclination to track the vagaries of campus goings-on. Major figures—including many donors—are staking out positions critical…
March 28, 2024
An Early Look at the Child Tax Credit Changes in the Tax Relief for American Families and Workers Act of 2024
…for families with dependent children. Originally a nonrefundable credit that offset federal income tax liability, the CTC has expanded over time to become partially refundable—that is, available to taxpayers without…
March 27, 2024
Narcan Babies
…are reaching all-time highs. A report from Minnesota found that, of all 88 child maltreatment fatalities from 2014–2022, only three children died from exposure to drugs, one of which was…
March 26, 2024
Reading Scores Have Plunged Since the Pandemic. What This Senator Wants to Do About That
…a Lost Generation: Facing a Critical Moment for Students’ Literacy.” As schools struggle to address learning loss, and at a time when “the nation’s report card” finds that just 33 percent of…