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January 16, 2024
Dry January Should Be Drug Free
…alcoholism contributes to premature deaths—but slowly and over time. The wave of drug overdoses has hit hard—and in the moment, as we rightly wring out hands about “deaths of despair.”…
January 15, 2024
New York’s Voter Suppression
Some Americans never register to vote. Those of us who do usually register just once. But over the past two years I’ve registered three times. I might even do it…
January 12, 2024
When It Comes to the State of the American Economy, Let’s Keep It Real
…updates thresholds only for inflation—fell from 19.5% to 1.6%.” Or how about a recent study by Gerald Auten and David Splinter that found that income inequality has changed little over time, challenging…
January 12, 2024
Congress Shouldn’t Expand Welfare in Return for Corporate Tax Cuts
…Moving forward, Congress could automatically increase the maximum benefit with inflation each year to ensure its real value stays constant over time, though Congress should avoid jacking up the current…
January 12, 2024
Get Ready for AI-Driven Skill Democratization
…platter knowledge and skills that would otherwise take considerable time, effort, and money to acquire, potentially broadening and strengthening our human capital base and freeing up highly talented people to…
January 12, 2024
What is the Utah “Family Miracle”?
…national media — from NPR to The New York Times — it led other states across the nation, from Arkansas to Texas, to also take legislative steps to reign in Big Tech and protect…
January 11, 2024
Tax Credit Nation — Politicians Are Casting New Spending As ‘Tax Cuts,’ Hiding Their True Cost
…president called the policy a “tax cut” 15 times. Despite that rhetoric, the policy actually dispensed far more in new benefit spending than tax relief. That’s typical, especially when politicians describe “refundable”…
January 11, 2024
Biden’s Dismantling of Federal Student Loan Programs Has Inspired Republicans to Go Big
…Phasing out the inflationary Graduate PLUS and Parent PLUS federal direct loan programs, the package would also expand the Pell Grant for students on-track for on-time graduation, and replace borrowing caps with…
January 10, 2024
By the Numbers: Here’s How the New Federal Financial Aid Formula Harms Families with More Than One Child
The old federal formula for higher education financial aid is dead. The new formula creates winners and losers. Specifically, the new formula harms middle-class families with more than one child in college at a time. It’s…
January 10, 2024
Even Congress’s “Tax Extenders” Are About More Benefits
…taxes a parent has paid, it provided full CTC benefits for the first time even to parents who didn’t owe those taxes in the first place. The authors of the…