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June 5, 2025
Measuring the Value of Nondegree Credentials
…all,” nondegree credentials have emerged as attractive alternatives, requiring far less time and money to help launch new careers and enabling workers to switch fields or earn promotions. However, there…
June 4, 2025
Congress Is Subsidizing the Wrong Neighborhoods
…rate. It was a worthy attempt at bolstering development in areas needing greater investment to stimulate the local economy. As The Times reported in 2018, Senator Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican…
May 29, 2025
How Non-disabled Medicaid Recipients Without Children Spend Their Time
…lot of time playing video games or watching television as some political leaders allege? Or would increased time complying with the community engagement requirement take time away from looking for…
May 28, 2025
An Evaluation of Approaches to Cut and Reform SNAP
…no income are not working and therefore, they’re going to get less benefits as a result of the work requirements. At the same time, you’re substantially strengthening work incentives because…
May 27, 2025
The Surprising Role of Large Developers in Solving the Housing Crunch
…up 44% from $292,000 a decade ago. Despite elevated prices and interest rates, first-time buyers are purchasing more new homes than at any time in the past decade. This transformation…
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…