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January 31, 2024
Perspective: The ‘social workplace’ and why it matters to Zoomers
…tends to grow over time, reaching 63% by late career. One explanation for these trends could be that younger workers may not have had the same amount of time to…
January 29, 2024
Per-Child Benefit in Wyden-Smith Child Tax Credit Bill Would Discourage Full-Time Work for Families with Multiple Children
…would rise by $6,200, for an effective tax rate of 69 percent. A 14 percentage point increase in the effective tax on moving from part-time to full-time work for some…
January 29, 2024
How Should Students Think About College?
…to weigh the decision carefully to avoid the double-negative of no degree and student loan debt. This “propensity to complete” is perhaps the most important variable. Without it, the time…
January 29, 2024
Let’s Not Turn the Child Tax Credit Into Welfare
…$2,500 minimum threshold. For example, if a family earns $10,000 in a year ($7,500 above the minimum threshold), they receive $1,125 as a refundable credit ($7,500 times 15 percent). The refundable…
January 24, 2024
It’s National School Choice Week. Democrats: What Do You Think?
This week is National School Choice Week, which makes it a good time to ponder the state of the school choice coalition. During the Clinton–Bush school reform era, broad swaths…
January 23, 2024
A Follow-Up on My Recent Testimony to the Joint Economic Committee on Policy Approaches to Increasing the Supply of Affordable Housing
…offers generous tax credits for builders that rent units to tenants earning below 60% of area median income. During the hearing’s Q&A, I did not have time to elaborate on…
January 21, 2024
Portland’s Encampment Kids
…we find a similar 56 percent reduction in the likelihood of being confirmed as a victim of child maltreatment.” The difference? The removed kids got time away from the parents,…
January 18, 2024
Evidence Mounts That Pre-K Harms Kids
…But in 2019, Deming’s students extended his methods to cover the original subjects over a longer time horizon, as well as students who attended Head Start in the in the 1980s. The…
January 17, 2024
Achieving Housing Abundance Through State and Local Land Use and Zoning Reform
…allowing builders of all sizes to build abundant market-rate housing over time. Fortunately, this is already happening – and entirely without federal involvement. In 2023 alone, Washington, Montana, and Vermont…
January 17, 2024
Tax Extenders Package Would Cut the Child Tax Credit’s Annual Work Requirement in Half
…and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) is notable for far more than its timing. On the plus side, and to the negotiators’ credit, it’s a rare example of bipartisan cooperation…