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April 9, 2024
The Child Tax Credit: My Long-Read Q&A with Kevin Corinth
…also getting lots of money from economic impact payments or the stimulus payments. We still had those boosted unemployment insurance checks. So this was at a time when, really, we…
April 9, 2024
Biden Knows Student Loan Cancellation Is a Bad Idea
…while benefits are concentrated. Time will tell what the fate of Biden’s constant efforts at forgiveness will be. The courts have held back Biden from blatant executive overreach, and they may well…
April 8, 2024
Accountability Comes to Public Housing
…average tenant has lived in NYCHA housing for more than 20 years. Nearly 30 percent of the tenants are “over-housed”—meaning they have empty bedrooms—at a time when family shelters are…
April 8, 2024
The $1,000 Tax Hike on Middle-Class Families
…than they paid six years ago — at the same time that adults without children will face no tax increase at all. What’s worse is that for every additional kid…
April 8, 2024
We Still Don’t Know How Much Taxpayers Lost Due to Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Fraud
…millions of independent contractors, the self-employed, and others never before eligible for regular Unemployment Insurance (UI) checks. But in some of the worst policy choices of all time, lawmakers failed to…
April 5, 2024
What’s Wrong with the US Economy? Anything?
…of what Americans are experiencing right now: Employment data for some time now is consistent with what we refer to as a 3-2 condition — when unemployment rate stays in…
April 4, 2024
Biden’s ‘Tax Cut’ Rhetoric Is Really Just Code For Benefit Increases
…Democrats temporarily expanded the Child Tax Credit in 2021 to provide payments to non-workers for the first time, the resulting deluge of new benefit payouts turned the IRS into America’s number one welfare agency. The…
April 3, 2024
School Absenteeism Has Become A Big Problem. But We Can Do Something About It.
Chronic absenteeism has become a pressing challenge for the nation’s schools. The stories are ubiquitous, featuring headlines like last week’s New York Times’s front-pager “Why School Absences Have ‘Exploded’ Almost Everywhere.” In…
April 3, 2024
Feds Should Take a Big Step Back on Student Loans
…of the lending program isn’t possible in the current political environment, it’s what I hope Republican lawmakers will be considering the next time a political opportunity arises. And the silver…
March 31, 2024
Can Local Journalism Be Saved?
…of nursing and retirement homes. As the Roanoke Times shrank, the donors were rebuffed in their effort to persuade the Times’s owner, Lee Enterprises, to expand reporting. (Lee had bought the paper from…