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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…
August 12, 2023
Why Ending Child Services Is the New Defund the Police
…and neglect and three times as likely to die from maltreatment as their white peers. If anything, the notion that child welfare is structurally racist has become an article of…
August 11, 2023
Why Does NY Campaign To Stop Smoking But Not Illicit Drug Use?
…issuance of new pot dispensary licenses, after finding that giving first preference to ex-drug dealers violated state law aimed at helping veterans. It’s the perfect time for a different approach:…
August 10, 2023
The Rowe Show
On today’s Remnant—which happens to be more than a year in the making—Jonah’s joined for the first time by Ian Rowe, a senior fellow at AEI and the author of…
August 10, 2023
The Real Reason People Leave Religion
More than a decade ago, the Pew Research Center released a path-breaking study on people without religion: “Nones” on the Rise. At the time, I was in graduate school studying political science…
August 9, 2023
The CTC Work Incentive Works
…the full-CTC threshold were also much less likely to work full-time (Figure 2). For example, less than 40 percent of head of household tax filers with income below the full…
August 8, 2023
Bad Hoosiers
…the most culturally and scientifically advanced society in the world at that time, a country that was home to towering figures from the arts, literature, philosophy, religion, and science, went…