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May 23, 2023
Will Biden Cross a Line on Poverty?
…gap would grow over time, and by 2033 the poverty line would be more than $13,000 higher than it would be using the current approach. Raising the poverty line would…
May 23, 2023
The White House Defender of Welfare Work Requirements
…adult recipients were expected to work, search for work, or engage in education, training, or other activities at least part time to remain eligible for benefits. Those 1996 reforms were…
May 23, 2023
An Unexpected Role for AI in the Workplace
…hour, and average call time for those using AI fell by 5 minutes from a company baseline of 40. Customer support workers handled more calls and resolved more problems with…
May 23, 2023
Public Housing Should Have Work Rules, Too
…been finding ways around it.) Unlike Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, housing benefits come with no time limit: about 32,000 New York City public-housing residents have lived in the projects…
May 23, 2023
Biden Courts Another Mortgage Crisis
…have hollowed out the risk-based pricing structure erected after the 2008 financial crisis. Progressives claim these rules need to be altered so those who have historically had a harder time…
May 17, 2023
Is President Biden About to Triangulate Democrats on Welfare Work Requirements?
…Those requirements currently expect ABAWDS under age 50 to engage in at least part-time work, training, or community service to be eligible for food stamps beyond three months. The House…
May 17, 2023
The Wrong Immigration at the Wrong Time
…been capped at 85,000 for the last twenty years with annual applications now totaling eight times that figure. These are the workers where labor shortages are the most striking and they…
May 12, 2023
Follow the Money as Hochul Floats Tobacco Ban While Pushing Legal Marijuana
…Albany Times-Union, of the $16 billion in tobacco settlement funds New York State received between 1999 and 2021, just $920 million went for “tobacco control,” including those legitimately frightening television…
May 10, 2023
AI Tutoring Has a Lot to Offer. But so Does Human Mentoring.
…lots of different measures, that Americans were joining fewer groups and spending more time in solo activities than they used to. Today, kids are enmeshed in fewer social networks, as they’re…
May 6, 2023
SNAP Needs a Healthy Overhaul
…obese. Moreover, half of this group described their health as fair or poor—more than four times the rate reported by higher-income Americans in the same age group. Mental health challenges…