September 17, 2026
Don’t Count on Those $5,000 Trump Dividend Checks
Trump’s dividend check announcement is set to be one of many in a long line of failed benefit promises.
August 15, 2026
The Ongoing Battle to Defend Welfare Reform
Welfare reform replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families…
August 12, 2026
The Misleading Narrative About the ‘Hollowing Out’ of the Middle Class
The prevailing media narrative after years of mounting economic inequality is that the middle class…
July 30, 2026
Rethinking Predatory Student Lending
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act ended the Grad PLUS loan program for new borrowers and…
July 20, 2026
Student Loan Policy Uncertainty Has Real Costs
To put it mildly, opinions varied on whether the Biden administration’s student loan policies—namely its…
July 19, 2026
Microfinance Failures
It is hard to think of a philanthropic trend that had more widespread support than…
July 9, 2026
How to Strengthen the Climb From the Safety Net
Executive summary Wisconsin has long benefited from low poverty rates and relatively high labor force…
June 25, 2026
Capping Student Loan Interest Would Cost Billions, Help Well-off Borrowers
Representative Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL) announced on Wednesday that she would file a discharge petition on her proposal,…
June 18, 2026
The Long, Slow Death of Social Democracy
For three decades, social democracy was the most successful product of a working-class movement that…
June 15, 2026
Free-Market Forces Behind Fishtown’s Revival
This opinion letter was originally published in the The Wall Street Journal. You can read the…
June 15, 2026
The Shrinking Middle Class and Booming Upper-Middle Class: The Plot Thickens
Earlier this year, our report, “The Middle Class Is Shrinking Because of a Booming Upper-Middle Class,”…
June 10, 2026
New York Families Are Doing Better Than You’ve Heard
Is the middle class in danger? On social media and in the news, Americans regularly…