Tag: spending priorities
Getting Social Security on a more stable path is hard but...
Andrew Rettenmaier, Texas A&M University and Dennis W. Jansen, Texas A&M University
Social Security is in trouble.
Federal spending covers only 8% of public school budgets
David S. Knight, University of Washington
CC BY-SAState and local tax dollars cover the bulk of U.S. public school funding.
The federal government spends just under...
Giving private schools federal emergency funds slated for low-income students will...
Derek W. Black, University of South Carolina
Public schools have faced three distinct challenges since the coronavirus pandemic began – scrambling to make sure that...
How much of a difference does the number of kids in...
Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach, Northwestern University
Chicago’s teachers went on strike in October, suspending instruction for the city’s public school students for 11 days.
Educators in the...
Getting poorer while working harder: The ‘cliff effect’
Susan R. Crandall, University of Massachusetts Boston
Forty percent of all working-age Americans sometimes struggle to pay their monthly bills.
There is no place in...
The GOP’s poor arguments for doubling down on SNAP’s work requirements
Patricia Smith, University of Michigan
Republicans aim to tighten the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s work requirements as part of the farm bill Congress is debating.
These...
Why Trump’s infrastructure ambitions are likely to stall
Caroline Nowacki, Stanford University and Kate Gasparro, Stanford University
President Donald Trump recently raised the ante with his promise to unleash a wave of new...
Trump’s push for self-sufficiency misses the point of safety net programs
David Campbell, Binghamton University, State University of New York and Kristina Lambright, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Here’s how Office of Management and...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
