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January 14, 2025
The Pornography Industry Should Not Be Allowed This Much Access to Our Children
…seeking out and viewing these types of harmful online sexual materials. It is time for our culture to come to terms with the inconsistency of valuing the dignity of women…
January 7, 2025
More Skilled Immigrants for More Economic Growth
…support for removing green card country caps for skilled immigrants, a position aligned with Silicon Valley but controversial among some Trump supporters. Amid this debate, it’s a good time to…
January 6, 2025
This Child Welfare Rule Puts Social Justice Over Safety
…the Administration on Children, Youth and Families (ACYF), described one of her agency’s new rules to Time in 2023. The rule lets states create alternative licensing processes for relatives of a child…
January 6, 2025
Congress Can Block Student Loan Cancellation—Forever
Over the holiday season, the Biden administration withdrew two pending regulations to unilaterally cancel hundreds of billions of dollars’ worth of student loans. Officials evidently judged that the administration would not have time to…
January 3, 2025
Thanks, Joe Manchin
…with special emphasis on policies undermining the incentive to work. The stimulus law provided child tax credit checks from the IRS to nonworking adults for the first time. It also…
January 2, 2025
AI Will Have a Major Impact on Labor Markets. Here’s How the US Can Prepare
…evolving opportunities and avoid reliving the painful lessons will require better labor market information. A recent American Enterprise Institute (AEI) paper argues we need new data foundations that provide timely, accurate insights…
December 30, 2024
What’s behind the unprecedented rise in homelessness, and how can we reverse it?
…people over the past two years. That represents a 43% increase, which is approximately 10 times as large as the second largest two-year increase on record, when sheltered homelessness grew…
December 30, 2024
Coverage, Counter-cyclicality and Targeting of Work Requirement Waivers in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
…from 1997–2023 and evaluate waiver coverage, counter-cyclicality and targeting. Waiver coverage has grown over time and in December 2023, when the national unemployment rate was 3.5 percent, waivers covered 29…
December 20, 2024
Fixing Inflation, Right-Sizing the Federal Government
…air. In January 1995, Republicans had just won control of both houses for the first time in 42 years. The federal debt had reached 48 percent of gross domestic product…
December 18, 2024
Employers Should Drop Hiring Preferences for “Elite 34” Colleges
…and the New York Times. Jobs like these are the first rung on a ladder that leads Elite 34 graduates to the top echelons of society. Elite 34 graduates would…