Blog: Policy Shop

High poverty rates for children in single mother families is a policy choice.

Subsidies to the country’s biggest employer help it remain immensely profitable.

What the Congressman’s plan lacks in a tax proposal, he makes up for with very real spending cuts.

His magnum opus addresses mainstream American political discourse focused on policy-induced growth

A new report shows that projected ten-year deficits have shrunk by nearly $5 trillion since 2010, which is pretty remarkable. It seems like just yesterday that the Simpson-Bowles Commission released it’s findings amid a fierce debate over the budget deficit. read more

Consumerism & Sustainable Economics Credit and Debt Currently under consideration by state legislature, SB 975 is the third attempt to legalize payday loans (PDLs) in Pennsylvania since 2010. It claims to accommodate many of the criticisms against its predecessors, but the tweaks are superficial, and the basic impasse remains: that which makes payday lending profitable […]

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Home Depot co-founder Ken Langone is the latest rich guy to make a fool of out of himself by invoking Nazism to condemn populist attacks on inequality. Langone has apologized, but it’s worth looking beyond the Hitler analogy to more closely examine Langone’s main point that “You don’t survive as a society if you encourage […]

The Week | Sean McElwee Lew Daly For decades, rapid economic growth has been the norm for developed countries. An educated workforce, a large population boom, major technological advances, and abundant fossil fuels were the key components of growth, generating substantial and broadly distributed increases in standards of living in many countries. We have grown […]