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Is the real unemployment rate 40%?

It all depends on who is in office. When George W. Bush oversaw an economic recovery as president, liberals pointed to alternative unemployment numbers to cast doubt on his economic policies. Now that...

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The case for ending Powerball

The chance to win over a half billion dollars in this week’s Powerball drawing brought millions of Americans out to buy lottery tickets. (I was one of them.) Now, with the big drawing over and a few...

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Despite SNAP cuts, House Farm Bill is not a ‘fiscally responsible’ option

WASHINGTON (May 14, 2013) – The U.S. House version of the 2013 Farm Bill, which the Agriculture Committee will begin marking up tomorrow, includes increases in taxpayer-financed crop insurance...

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A DC neighborhood’s ills: Bad policy knows no party

For the first time in the 15 years since I graduated from college and moved to the Washington, D.C. area, I feel like I’m working in a real city. The small think tank I run just moved to new offices...

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Farm Bill folly: The real way the bill harms the poor

A long line of representatives from the Congressional Black Caucus came to the floor July 11 to stand in opposition to the House’s agriculture-only Farm Bill, which passed on a party-line vote of...

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How computerized work affects immigration

In 1900, 41 percent of the U.S. workforce was employed in agriculture. One hundred years later, that share had declined to 1.9 percent. Over that interval, the jobs that were easy and cheap to...

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It isn’t the McDonald’s budget that’s out of touch; it’s the media

Last week, the Northeast-corridor media ran wild with pithy derision over an effort led by McDonald’s and Visa to provide McDonald’s employees with financial planning tools and advice. The budget...

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The geography of opportunity

Something extraordinary is happening in Salt Lake City, Seattle and Pittsburgh and in the suburbs surrounding them, and if we’re going to overcome entrenched poverty in America as a whole, we have to...

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Don’t forget the poor

The following piece was co-authored by R Street President Eli Lehrer. After five decades of liberal antipoverty programs that have produced only failure and futility, it is more than time for a...

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Sanders on the conservative case to tackle poverty

R Street Outreach Manager Lori Sanders joins Michael Graham, host of the The Weekly Standard‘s podcast, to discuss her recent piece on why Republicans need to take poverty relief seriously and put...

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Family values in the age of household diversity

From National Review: My R Street colleagues Eli Lehrer and Lori Sanders call for a more ambitious conservative anti-poverty agenda in the Weekly Standard. They identify various measures designed to...

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In New York, the rent doesn’t have to be ‘too damn high’

The house in which I grew up was built in 1913. It was part of a building boom in New York City’s outer boroughs fueled by the rising incomes, and rising aspirations, of erstwhile tenement-dwellers. As...

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The Republicans are reaching a crucial crossroads

These should be good times to be a Republican. The president and his Democratic allies have had a cruel summer as a tepid recovery and a steady drip of low-level scandals have taken their toll....

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On Labor Day 2013, welfare pays more than minimum-wage work in 35 states

From Forbes: As Reihan Salam has noted, Sweden has a generous welfare state. But Sweden treats welfare benefits as taxable income. This gives even welfare beneficiaries an incentive to support...

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How Larry Summers could fix his reputation – and help millions of Americans

Right now, it looks as though Larry Summers has the inside track to be named the next chairman of the Federal Reserve. This is despite the fact that many on the left, from Democratic lawmakers like...

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Support Nutrition Reform and Work Opportunity Act

September 18, 2013 An Open Letter to the House of Representatives: Support Nutrition Reform and Work Opportunity Act Dear Representative, On behalf of the R Street Institute, I write today to express...

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Salam talks with director of Let the Fire Burn

Over at the Vice Podcast, R Street Senior Fellow Reihan Salam chats this week with Jason Osder, director of the new documentary Let the Fire Burn. Comprised of local news clips and found footage, the...

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A vindication of Juggalo society: Why America is increasingly down with the...

In February 2012, Cato Institute Vice President Gene Healy tweeted what may be the funniest think tank tweet to date: “Someday, the ‘Think Tank Network’ (TTN) will sponsor a reality show in which...

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Georgia Republicans to the poor: ‘We can’t hear you now’

If you want to reduce fraud and abuse in a government program, you can figure out the sources and experiment with reasonable solutions. Or you can do what my home state of Georgia is doing to their...

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Mike Lee wants conservatives to stop calling poor people moochers

From Slate: That’s not all he said, but the Utah senator’s speech at the Heritage Foundation has been heralded by many on the right and hardly noticed on the left. “I hope other Tea Party conservatives...

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