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August 23, 2023
Labor Department Report Finds Pandemic Unemployment Program Had a Staggering 36 Percent Improper Payment Rate
…only partial, since they reflect improper payments at one point in time, and not throughout the program’s operation. The report also fails to spell out the value of the resulting…
August 23, 2023
Solve Two Crises At Once: Put Migrants In NYCHA
…the Lower East Side has a better way. The New York Times reports that Camille Napoleon “has hosted as many as 12 migrants at a time in her two-bedroom apartment, on couches…
August 22, 2023
Is Paid Leave a Pro-Growth Policy?
…homes alike have become the norm. Paid time off also grants families the opportunity to come together and bond during a formative chapter of the new child’s life absent new…
August 21, 2023
Four Shocking Truths about the American Economy! (Well, Shocking to Some.)
…to be contrarian just for the sake of being contrarian, I take a starkly different view on all of those issues. Time for some myth busting, Faster, Please! style! “The link between…
August 17, 2023
The ‘Utah Family Miracle’ and Why It Matters
…childbearing is softening at this moment. But at the same time, the state continues to lead the nation in affording children the gift of married parents and maintains its position…
August 16, 2023
How to Strengthen the ‘Success Sequence’ in Utah
…stability is losing ground. As for work, there has been a decline in the share of young men engaged in full-time work in Utah, much like the rest of the…
August 14, 2023
What ‘Earth Mama’ Doesn’t Tell Us About Foster Care
…is not true of “Earth Mama,” a recently released film by first-time director Savanah Leaf. The story is about a pregnant woman, Gia, whose two children are in the foster…
August 14, 2023
Tracking Plans to Make Pandemic Benefit Expansions Permanent
…part time, or work full time or more. (“The Coming Push to Revive Work-Free Child Tax Credits“) Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) Goal: Permanently remove the annual earnings requirement for…
August 14, 2023
The Narcissism of Small Diffidences
…part of an effort to ensure he would devote his time to studying instead of taking time to hang around with friends. Most of her interactions with him were about…
August 13, 2023
The Bill to Repair NYCHA Projects Doubles—but Pols Won’t Fix the System
…has moved no faster than heat repairs in the winter—and may not even work at all. It’s time for a much more radical rethinking of the system in which at…