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October 2, 2024
The effect of taxes and transfers on low-earning workers’ income.
…fallen over time, while transfer rates have fluctuated with the business cycle. Men’s earnings after taxes and transfers rose a bit more than their pre-tax and -transfer earnings. Read the…
October 2, 2024
AOC’s “Social Housing” Dead End
New York representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, an avatar of the progressive Left, recently shared her vision of how America’s housing shortage should be addressed in a New York Times op-ed cowritten with Senator Tina…
October 2, 2024
Higher Education: Making Education Beyond High School Work for All
…restore rationality to the federal student loan system by limiting the amount students can borrow and holding colleges financially responsible for unpaid student loans. At the same time, both Congress…
September 30, 2024
Our Academic Productivity After the Council of Economic Advisers
Abstract Gordon Tullock wrote that government economists found capable of “firefighting” are assigned to do more of it, “with the result that the higher ranks of government economists aren’t able…
September 27, 2024
Justice at Any Cost?
…limitations on such claims, putting insurance companies on the hook for decades-old incidents. In fact, they may not have even been responsible for insuring the parties at the time but…
September 27, 2024
Food Insecurity Increases Driven by Middle- and High-Income Households
…Bureau released their annual report on income in the United States, in which they found strong income growth throughout the income distribution. So, at the same time that incomes were…
September 25, 2024
Disconnected: The Growing Class Divide in American Civic Life
…friends. In 2024, that number has dropped to just 17 percent. Read the PDF. Executive Summary At one time, American social and civic life was characterized by robust networks of…
September 25, 2024
The Costs of Inaction: Economic Risks from Housing Unaffordability
…payment assistance to 4 million first-time buyers over four years is almost certain to lead to higher home prices, thereby, more than eliminating the intended benefits. The millions of program…
September 24, 2024
Household Food Insecurity Rises Again – Inflation, especially for households ineligible for safety net programs, to blame
…did not receive the emergency allotment. Looking at this over a longer time period, the increase in food insecurity rates among SNAP recipients from 2019 to 2023 was 0.6 percent…
September 23, 2024
The Last Bipartisan Policy
…via a federal executive order in 2020, and former Maryland Governor Larry Hogan, via a state executive order in 2022. In just the couple of years since that time, 23 states have…