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COSM Commentary
Understanding the Recent Declines in SNAP Participation
…cracking down on improper payments. Although it will take time to fully understand the effects of OBBBA on SNAP, placing caseload trends into context suggests that SNAP participation was due…
Op-Ed
Why First-Time Buyer Age Isn’t Rising—Even as Housing Gets Less Affordable
…timing. As a result, the median age of first-time buyers changes little even as access to homeownership deteriorates. To explore this result further, we construct a person-level measure of homeownership…
Op-Ed
There Are Many Reasons to Cheer Up About the State of the Middle Class
…of economic insecurity, they have likely fallen. One measure of job-to-job flows is the share of workers who hold two or more jobs over a year’s time. That share fell from about…
Op-Ed
Missing Boy Jacob Pritchett Is a Reminder of Why We Can’t Leave Disabled Kids with Ill-Equipped Parents
…tattooed on her arm. Children like Jacobs with disabilities are three times as likely to be victims of abuse and neglect as their able-bodied peers. Why? An article in the…
Op-Ed
How Much AI-Driven Productivity Growth Do We Want?
…describing what they saw out their window. “All that is solid,” they wrote, “melts into air.” At the same time, because output per worker is the key driver of long-term…
Blog Post
Refocusing the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation on Achieving Deep Cost Reductions
…know how it will play out). With nearly three years left in its term, the administration still has time to make a concerted push for cost-cutting experiments. There are numerous…
Commentary
The More Things Change, Medicaid Edition
…take the matter into their own hands by ordering a staff investigation. Their findings were shocking. As summarized in a story that ran in the New York Times, the investigators…
Op-ed
Compiling My Work on Work Incentives
…Understate the Costs of a Child Allowance?” American Enterprise Institute (December 16, 2021) https://www.aei.org/research-products/working-paper/did-a-national-academy-of-sciences-committee-on-poverty-reduction-overstate-the-benefits-and-understate-the-costs-of-a-child-allowance/ “Second Time’s the Charm?” with Yuval Levin, National Review (June 15, 2022) https://www.aei.org/op-eds/second-times-the-charm/ “How Much Would Creating a…
Commentary
Opportunity Book: A New Tool for Connecting Policymakers with Innovative Ideas
…poverty that are many times higher for black kids than white kids. Policymakers require serious solutions to tackle these challenges. However, it can be difficult to sift through the political…
Blog Post
Young Men Aren’t Checked Out. We’ve Closed the Paths That Once Guided Them
…men, especially those less inclined toward traditional academic environments. At the same time, vocational pathways remain underdeveloped and culturally undervalued. Consider the contrast. A young man who enters a skilled…
Commentary
Assessing Duplicative Federal Benefit Programs and Preventing Abuse
…Insurance a Bigger Target for Scammers,” AEIdeas, May 27, 2020, https://www.aei.org/opportunity-social-mobility/elevated-claims-and-payments-make-unemployment-insurance-a-bigger-target-for-scammers/. [31] David Manoucheri, “EDD Backlog and Fraud Timeline: How We Got Here,” KCRA 3, June 23, 2021, https://www.kcra.com/article/edd-backlog-and-fraud-timeline-how-we-got-here-california-unemployment-jobless-covid-19/35312619. [32] Relative to the 90 programs…
Op-Ed
Congress Gave Families a Raise. Now Let Parents Decide How to Use It.
…savings on child care would more than offset the lost earnings. A single mother could shift to part-time work to spend more time with her young child, drawing on the…