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January 10, 2024
Even Congress’s “Tax Extenders” Are About More Benefits
…taxes a parent has paid, it provided full CTC benefits for the first time even to parents who didn’t owe those taxes in the first place. The authors of the…
January 9, 2024
Let’s Expand the Child Tax Credit a Little Bit
…favor full-time-work-and-certified-day-care over other arrangements, and so much of the approximately $4 billion child and dependent care tax credit could be folded into adding a few hundred more to the…
January 9, 2024
The Success Sequence for Unmarried Mothers
…lived apart. However, the relationship between biological parents broke down over time. By the time of the year 15 survey, only 17% of biological parents were married to each other…
January 4, 2024
To Fix Their Housing Shortage in 2024, Cities and States Should Turn To Market
…of progress from Seattle’s prior upzoning reforms that freed the market from government regulations. To properly evaluate the MHA, one must go further back in time than the HUD assessment….
January 2, 2024
Billionaire-Built Cities Would Be Better Than Nothing
A company backed by Silicon Valley’s most powerful investors, including the LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman and the venture capitalist Marc Andreessen, assembled a land empire outside San Francisco and announced…
January 2, 2024
We Can Make Chicago Safer By Prioritizing Stronger Families
…promote and advocate for the “success sequence” in schools and social media across American cities — including Chicago. The idea is that a high school education, a full-time job and…
December 31, 2023
Forget Eric Adams’ Flawed Housing Plan — Let’s Make ALL NYC Neighborhoods “High-Opportunity”
New York City residents are facing the ill-effects of drastic, across-the-board budget cuts affecting the most basic city services. It would hardly seem to be the right time for the Adams…
December 26, 2023
Safe-Injection Sites and Crime
…not to do so, because advocates likely will use the report to seek to open more safe-injection sites across the country. Indeed, they are already doing so. A New York Times op-ed summarized…
December 19, 2023
Sins of Omission: Public Broadcasting Fails to Reach a Broad Cross-Section of America
…less so. Indeed, toggling between Fox News and the PBS NewsHour is at times like going back and forth between different countries. This is not to say that the Washington-based…
December 18, 2023
No Excuses Now for NYCHA
…New York’s version of this program is called “Permanent Affordability Commitment Together,” and it’s already working at Baychester Housing in the Bronx, whose renovation the New York Times lauded as the future…