With the March 14 funding deadline approaching, the House 2025 approps bill seeks the deepest cut ever to housing vouchers. It would fall $4.3 B short of what’s needed and cause 750,000 fewer people to receive assistance. cbpp.org/research/housi…

As we start week 4 of the foreign assistance freeze, here are some of my favorite posts & why I’m cautiously optimistic. The first 2 weeks I was concerned because few outside the field were talking about the freeze, and organizations were slow to file suits. That’s changed.

I think of this as builder’s remedy, but for universities Only universities with 500k endowment per student pay the tax, so just increase enrollment rather than hoarding cash and you’re fine

Alas, along with recent USAID and State Dept cuts to my organized crime and criminal justice research in Latin America, on Friday DoD terminated a new $2.1 million grant to study programs to counter organized crime and gang recruitment science.org/content/articl…

Free speech on college campuses is a proud American tradition, and — on public campuses — protected by the First Amendment. President Trump's message this morning, combined with other recent executive orders threatening punishment for protected speech, is deeply chilling. 🧵

. The University of Chicago undergraduates: Pascal Noel and I are hiring a summer research intern. if you are interested in labor, public, or macro working on policy relevant topics in a collaborative environment please apply here by March 24 app.joinhandshake.com/emp/jobs/97635…

My excellent Conversation with Ezra Klein, conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/ezra-…, #abundance, #Cowenconvos

This interview was a lot of fun but the transcript here is confusing. What "doesn't fit my politics" is Tyler's Idea to shut down Medicaid and Medicare. I love prizes for drug development, where the final drug then is immediately generic. Been arguing for that for two decades.

Is this the end of the FHFA house price index? Sounds like most of the research & stats division of FHFA was put on leave. FHFA produces the essential government report on home price trends, nationally and locally. govexec.com/workforce/2025… via GovExec

Jerusalem Peter Ganong Ezra Klein Derek Thompson Consider the Shapiro-bridge example from the book: it necessarily requires declaring an emergency and skipping past certain laws/regulations. Easy to see a scenario where that could be abused by certain people currently running the govt.

this is peak dc synagogue calendar form

Grateful to my hosts last week at IIES, ROCKWOOL Fonden and University of Copenhagen Research. The highlight was probably meeting one of my intellectual heros: Martin browning

What are the best articles you have seen on how DOGE has changed or might change benefits in the US?

Labor supply contraction incoming. How many undocumented immigrants work in jobs where they are issued W2s? Not just ITINs but also incorrect SSNs. Anyone in such a job is considering leaving it now so as to make it harder for the govt to track them. nytimes.com/2025/04/08/us/…

This is the answer to the question I tweeted yesterday

Excited to participate in the IZA / OECD ➡️ Better Policies for Better Lives online conference on unemployment insurance. Live now! Watch here conference.iza.org/IZA_OECD_2025_…