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August 28, 2024
Some Context Behind JD Vance’s Child Tax Credit Comments
…the CTC into a fully refundable child allowance for one year, meaning parents received a flat amount whether they worked full-time, part-time, or not at all—and regardless of any federal…
August 26, 2024
Vouching for Self-Sufficiency
…renting to voucher recipients. First, policymakers should implement a time limit on the program, akin to cash welfare, motivating tenants to become self-sufficient and making way for the many households…
August 24, 2024
Harris’s Child Tax Credit Proposal Could Backfire, Perpetuating Poverty
…One parent works full time making $10 an hour, while the other parent stays home with the children. If they received no government assistance, this family would scrape by on…
August 20, 2024
The Robots Are Going to Take These Jobs. Thank Goodness.
…the labor of 30 full-time workers who are increasingly difficult to find. The math works: even these expensive robots pay for themselves within a year and continue to reduce labor…
August 18, 2024
Why NYC’s Most Affordable Housing May Already Be Available
…an older couple in Queens having a hard time paying their property taxes can’t decide to let a younger couple with a baby move into their empty bedrooms. It means…
August 16, 2024
The Harris Campaign’s Foolish Down-Payment-Assistance Scheme
On the surface, Kamala Harris’s proposal to provide $25,000 in down-payment assistance to first-time homebuyers looks to be an incentive for upward mobility. Historically, homeownership has been the foundation for wealth creation for…
August 15, 2024
Women Want More Children Than They’re Having. America Can Do More to Help
…hedonistic reasons. In explaining why she is childless, Beth Davis, a marketing professional, told The Wall Street Journal that she and her husband “have more time and energy to commit to ourselves,”…
August 7, 2024
A Bipartisan Solution to the Child Tax Credit Impasse
…worked 1.3 to 1.4 hours less each week compared with the control group. Instead of working during those hours, recipients used them for leisure time.” In 2021, as part of…
August 5, 2024
Are Opportunity Zones an Effective Place-Based Policy?
…of the bill were being drafted and debated. It was only when Senator Tim Scott (R-South Carolina) pushed for their inclusion, along with Congressional leaders and later President Trump, that…
August 2, 2024
Democrats’ Automatic Stimulus Proposals Undermine the Administration’s “Strongest Economy” Claims
…not in a recession.” That reinforces qualifications Sahm raised in a November 2023 op-ed (“Why My Recession Rule Could Go Wrong this Time”), which noted that growing numbers of “immigrants…