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May 22, 2025
Course Correction: Rebuilding The Federal Student Loan System After Biden’s Mismanagement
Key Points The Biden administration repeatedly refused to transition student borrowers back into repayment after the COVID-19 payment pause and unsuccessfully tried to cancel student debt en masse several times….
May 20, 2025
The share of Medicaid recipients in compliance with the House bill’s community engagement requirement
…community engagement requirement in at least the previous month and potentially additional (consecutive) months before getting onto the program. Over time, this could also affect the Medicaid caseload and the…
May 19, 2025
The Case for Shifting More Welfare Costs to States
…would reduce federal spending by shifting some current federal welfare costs to states. At the same time, dissatisfied conservative members have called for more federal cost shifting, especially under the…
May 18, 2025
Saved by Medicaid: New Evidence on Health Insurance and Mortality from the Universe of Low-Income Adults
…administrative tax data. Our methodology leverages state-level variation in the timing and adoption of Medicaid expansions under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and earlier waivers and adheres to a preregistered…
May 15, 2025
The Pandemic Is Over. It’s Time for Schools to Get the Message.
More than five years after the covid-19 pandemic began, the havoc it wreaked on American students and schools is alarmingly clear by nearly every measure. But there is one glaring…
May 14, 2025
Libraries Are Doing the Work—Let’s Fund Them Accordingly
…loans, internet access, author talks, art exhibits, story time) Meeting essential community needs (e.g., food banks, job search support, services for unhoused individuals, free cell phones for youth) Civic engagement…
May 14, 2025
Graduation in the Time of COVID: The Weakened Relationship with Chronic Absenteeism
…educators to deliberately determine how important attendance ought to be. If we believe that attending school should be valuable and necessary to students’ success, it is time to make it…
May 13, 2025
Out of Work and On the Dole — Is Uncle Sam Contributing to Young Men’s Malaise?
…non-intact family.” He added, “In fact, these young men are 36% less likely to hold down a full-time job by the time they hit their mid-twenties.” When it comes to…
May 13, 2025
Common-Sense SNAP Reforms Included in House Agriculture Reconciliation Proposal
…Food Plan beyond inflation in future years. This will ensure that SNAP benefit costs are predictable and consistent across time, and that only Congress can adjust SNAP benefit levels. Another…
May 10, 2025
How Single Room Occupancies Could Be the Answer to NYC’s Housing Crisis
…just that in his City of Yes housing plan, but key legal obstacles remain. There was a time when SROs were an extensive and crucial part of the city’s residential…