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March 24, 2025
Tax Abatements: The Best-Kept Secret to Revitalizing Struggling Communities—Without Spending Taxpayer Money
…combined, these reforms unleash American ingenuity and entrepreneurship, empowering builders of all sizes to deliver abundant, market-rate housing—boosting supply, reducing costs, and delivering real affordability over time. Read the full…
March 24, 2025
The Student Loan Payment Pause Was a Catastrophic Mistake
…pause might end, but then the federal government extended it eight times. The president announced that he would forgive your loans. The Supreme Court knocked him down. Then the president said…
March 21, 2025
Increasing Financial Aid Isn’t the Solution to High College Costs
…federal Pell Grant, which advocates claim has lost its “purchasing power” over time. This narrative is misleading. In fact, policymakers have made financial aid programs such as Pell Grants far…
March 20, 2025
Homesteading 2.0: A Proposal to Make Housing Affordable Again
Across the Western US, rising home prices are slowing economic growth and stripping first-time homebuyers and middle-class families of homeownership opportunities. Commonsense, market-driven solutions to expand the housing supply are…
March 20, 2025
To Transform K-12 Education, the Trump Administration Should Measure What Matters
…up in stable two-parent homes enjoy, on average, more quality adult time, greater economic resources, and increased emotional support from their parents. More than a decade ago, the obvious relevance…
March 18, 2025
Rebuilding Higher Education Finance: Reform Through Reconciliation
…income-based repayment plans, and the Department of Education. Each speaker gave their own perspective as a different actor in this space, and the audience’s questions were concerned with the timeline…
March 17, 2025
Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood
…clearly dissatisfied with the male status quo has forced some otherwise progressive thinkers to admit something’s changing. Recently on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” former Congressman Tim Ryan, a Democrat…
March 17, 2025
Trump Should Put an End to Rent Control
We are in a time when what would have seemed to be unimaginable domestic policy changes — from the abolition of the Department of Education to cutoffs of federal support for universities — are on the table. The Department…
March 13, 2025
Two Charts Show Why a Trade War Over Fentanyl Doesn’t Make Sense
…both of our neighbors over fentanyl is that the United States seizes over 500 times more fentanyl on the border with Mexico than it does on the border with Canada…
March 13, 2025
The Return To Student Loan Repayment, In Four Charts
In March 2020, the federal government enacted a “temporary” pause on student loan repayment, which the Trump and Biden administrations extended a grand total of eight times. But as of…