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February 8, 2024
Another Flawed Analysis Shows that Single Mothers are Highly Sensitive to Changes in Work Incentives
…incentives—from another angle. This time, he looks at episodes over the past 50 years where the work incentives faced by single mothers changed due to altered tax policy (generally due…
February 7, 2024
Child Tax Credit Bill Would Increase Marriage Penalties for Working Single Mothers
…parents to move from part-time work to full-time work. For example, we calculated that the effective tax on moving into full-time work would rise by 14 percentage points for a…
February 7, 2024
Elite Colleges Need to Offer Less Affirmation. And Insist on More Work.
…studying for the second mid-term. Professor: How much time did you actually devote to this class? Don’t include the time you attended the class or the time you spent reading the…
February 7, 2024
The Past and Future of Education Reform
…as the role model for the right when it comes to education reform. Since the Reagan era, the right’s education reformers have repeatedly fallen victim to the siren songs of…
February 7, 2024
To Save Local Journalism, Update The Public Broadcasting Act
During his time as the U.S. ambassador to France, Thomas Jefferson wrote that if he faced a choice between “a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a…
February 6, 2024
NYCHA Corruption Means It’s Time To Privatize
…contract value — between $500 and $2,000 depending on the size of the contract — but some defendants demanded even higher amounts.” It’s time for more far-reaching change to address…
February 6, 2024
Research by a Top Biden Administration Economist Reinforces the Importance of Work Incentives in the Child Tax Credit and the Safety Net
…Bastian’s Figure 2, that is roughly the level of single mother employment that existed in 1980 or 1984, before the EITC was significantly expanded for the first time in 1986…
February 5, 2024
Why We All Rely On the Organized Kindness of Strangers
…failed us in ways too numerous to mention. As a religion reporter, I spend an increasing amount of my time reporting those failings. And yet those congregations are still irreplaceable…
January 31, 2024
How Should State and Local Governments Respond to Illegal Retail Cannabis?
…time, as with tobacco, public health authorities should mount education campaigns to minimize marijuana use, in light of its demonstrated dangers. How-Should-State-and-Local-Governments-Respond-to-Illegal-Retail-CannabisDownload Introduction Legal cannabis has become a fact of…
January 31, 2024
The Wyden-Smith Child Tax Credit and Work: Responding to Critics
…time, it makes working this year more attractive—even if only by a couple thousand dollars—for parents who weren’t going to work this year or next year. They can go without…