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Recent SNAP Changes will Cost the Feds Less by Putting the Burden on Families and States The One Big Beautiful Bill will cost states more while SNAP participants will receive less

Recent SNAP Changes will Cost the Feds Less by Putting the Burden on Families and States www.briefingbook.info/p/recent-sna...

Trump Accounts as an Opportunity to Reduce Exponential Growth Bias and Improve Financial Security The new children's savings accounts offer financial education opportunities -- but choice architecture is likely to have a bigger influence on their ability to deliver broad-based wealth accumulation.

Trump Accounts as an Opportunity to Reduce Exponential Growth Bias and Improve Financial Security www.briefingbook.info/p/trump-acco...

The Bank and Private Capital Shadow Venture How to safekeep banks—and the safety net—from interconnections and systemic risk

The Bank and Private Capital Shadow Venture www.briefingbook.info/p/the-bank-a...

How Tougher Immigration Enforcement Can Undermine Public Safety New research finds that immigrant deportations can increase crime, through reducing victim engagement with law enforcement

How Tougher Immigration Enforcement Can Undermine Public Safety www.briefingbook.info/p/how-toughe...

Talking Shop: Abundance and Health Policy, with Nick Bagley Artificial scarcity, entrenched incumbents, insurance expansion, Medicaid cuts, and bending the cost curve

Talking Shop: Abundance and Health Policy, with Nick Bagley www.briefingbook.info/p/talking-sh...

Rising prevalence of disability is part of COVID-19's evolving labor market legacy Negative effects on labor force participation persist, as do higher rates of disability and employment among those with disabilities

Riding prevalence of disability is part of COVID-19’s evolving labor market legacy www.briefingbook.info/p/rising-pre...

Crypto Kleptocracy www.briefingbook.info/p/crypto-kle...

The Dangers of Shared Corporate Leadership When the same person holds leadership or board positions at two competing companies, the companies are more likely to enter into collusive agreements

The Dangers of Shared Corporate Leadership www.briefingbook.info/p/the-danger...

Tax Credits and the Safety Net: Proven Tools That Could Do Even More The EITC and CTC effectively deliver over $180 billion in aid annually and could still be improved

Tax Credits and the Safety Net: Proven Tools That Could Do Even More www.briefingbook.info/p/tax-credit...

Delivering the Future: Why the Postal Service Needs a New Model From Self-Financing to Public Investment in National Infrastructure

Delivering the Future: Why the Postal Service Needs a New Model www.briefingbook.info/p/delivering...

Los Angeles Shows That the Private Sector Can Develop Affordable Housing Survey data from Los Angeles also show that a majority of residents support new building in their neighborhoods

Los Angeles Shows That the Private Sector Can Develop Affordable Housing www.briefingbook.info/p/los-angele...

The Economic Case for Higher Birth Rates Is Bigger than You Think The fiscal challenges of an aging population matter, but the innovation and progress that could be lost in a shrinking world matter even more

The Economic Case for Higher Birth Rates Is Bigger than You Think www.briefingbook.info/p/the-econom...

Briefing Book Turns Two! Looking ahead to what’s to come.

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No, Native-Born Employment Has Not Soared A newly viral chart showing native-born employment levels is a multiple-count data felony. Focus instead on the native-born unemployment rate.

No, Native-Born Employment Has Not Soared www.briefingbook.info/cp/171234316

How Cuts to the Insurance Marketplaces Will Harm Entrepreneurs Small business owners and the self-employed rely on the marketplaces, and coverage is about to become less affordable

How Cuts to the Insurance Marketplaces Will Harm Entrepreneurs www.briefingbook.info/p/how-cuts-t...

Quick hits: Reactions to the Proposal by Senators Cassidy and Kaine to Rescue Social Security Would the rescue work?

Quick hits: Reactions to the Proposal by Senators Cassidy and Kaine to Rescue Social Security www.briefingbook.info/p/quick-hits...

Brave New World What financial regulatory policy wonks need to know about Silicon Valley

Brave New World www.briefingbook.info/p/brave-new-...

The Proliferation of Private Digital Money Don’t say you didn’t see this financial crisis coming.

The Proliferation of Private Digital Money www.briefingbook.info/p/the-prolif...

The real issues facing the Social Security program aren’t inefficiency or fraud Strengthening the program’s future will require balancing tradeoffs of increasing revenue and reducing benefits

The real issues facing the Social Security program aren’t inefficiency or fraud www.briefingbook.info/p/the-real-i...

Quick hits: Interesting links Student loans, unions, tariffs, and more

Quick hits: Interesting links www.briefingbook.info/p/quick-hits...

The Heart of the Deal Why the US-UK trade deal might make both countries poorer

The Heart of the Deal www.briefingbook.info/p/the-heart-...

The Long-term Dangers of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill Analysis shows that the bill would weaken US economic, fiscal and institutional resilience

The Long-term Dangers of Trump’s Big Beautiful Bill www.briefingbook.info/p/comparing-...

Why do some jobs pay better than others? Think about what workers do Policy matters, but don't forget the fundamentals

Why do some jobs pay better than others? Think about what workers do www.briefingbook.info/p/why-do-som...

The economic and geopolitical failings of Trump’s tariffs Trump tariffs will raise U.S. prices by 5.4% and lower real income by 0.8%. They hurt close U.S. allies much more than the Chinese economy.

The economic and geopolitical failings of Trump’s tariffs www.briefingbook.info/p/the-econom...

Cutting Medicaid Is A Risky Move for Republicans Medicaid has grown by 8.46 million or 32% in Red Districts Since 2013

Cutting Medicaid is a Risky Move for Republicans www.briefingbook.info/p/cutting-me...

Neither stable nor genius: the misguided legislative attempt to regulate stablecoins Bills moving through Congress would leave consumers and taxpayers exposed to volatile crypto products

Neither stable nor genius: the misguided legislative attempt to regulate stablecoins www.briefingbook.info/p/neither-st...

Deliberate policy decisions have disempowered workers and increased labor market inequality The new State of Working America Data Library shows the latest trends in productivity, wages, labor markets, unionization and CEO pay

Deliberate policy decisions have disempowered workers and increased labor market inequality www.briefingbook.info/p/deliberate...

Highway investment probably didn’t go up under Biden – this matters for future policy design Data sources vary, but the most relevant data source suggests that highway spending, adjusted for inflation, declined. If true, we should rethink federal infrastructure funding in times of distress.

Highway investment probably didn’t go up under Biden - this matters for future policy design www.briefingbook.info/p/highway-in...

Has U.S. infrastructure investment really declined? The devil is in the deflator, and most deflators show it has risen since 2019

Has U.S. infrastructure investment really declined? www.briefingbook.info/p/has-us-inf...

No delusions: Bidenomics wasn't perfect, but it did many great things Responding to Jason Furman

No delusions: Bidenomics wasn’t perfect, but it did many great things (cross-posted to Briefing Book) open.substack.com/pub/econjare...