'No amount of presidential jawboning about achieving artificial administration “milestones” will convince skeptics in key voting blocks of the labor market’s strength.' Matt Weidinger AEI's Center on Opportunity and Social Mobility @AEI

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'Brushing aside the airy vision—as well as the pomp and circumstance—this whole effort is a naked attempt to forgive as much debt as possible before the courts have a chance to strike down the program as unconstitutional.'

Beth Akers and Michael Brickman:
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'Historically high inflation that has eroded the real value of the child tax credit in recent years.' Kevin Corinth American Enterprise Institute American Enterprise InstituteCosm National Review
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Check out my new report with Preston Cooper and Joe Pitts.

Policy Engine estimates the CTC look back provision in TRAFWA (Wyden-Smith) would cost 5.5x what JCT estimates. Rather than being less than 5% of the CTC cost, it is over 20%. It would be $8.2B from 2023-25, maybe $50B-ish over 10 years if made permanent.

Our latest American Enterprise Institute paper: “Market-oriented Reform Principles and Policies that Would Help the Housing Market”
The report offers a set of market-oriented principles and policies that contrast sharply with President Biden’s analysis and plan on addressing housing unaffordability.

Over the past 20 years, the US has more than tripled its spending on food assistance programs, but the food insecurity rate has barely budged. In a new paper, Angela Rachidi and I show that the US’ measure of food insecurity does not identify households with the greatest need.