Josh McCabe
@JoshuaTMcCabe
Director of Social Policy at @NiskanenCenter | Sociologist | Always on the lookout for a worthwhile Canadian initiative | Views are mine
🚨 NEW REPORT: The EITC is a foundational policy for supporting American families - but persistent program integrity issues undermine this vital goal. Congress can address this a manner that protects these tax credits and the families served by them. 🧵
Even as public opinion on immigration has moved left, voters still trust Republicans to handle the issue better than Democrats, by a 17-point margin, according to a new WSJ poll. Voters also preferred the GOP on nearly every other issue polled
And now! Boston city council members introduce a bill to require drivers in Waymos and create an AV advisory board stacked with unions.
The anti-things getting better coalition is revving its engines
An unconditional cash transfer improved parenting quality and investments in children, but did not appear to improve children's outcomes in the short-term, from @pat_k_krause, @elizabethrds, @smilleralert, @alexbartik, @dbroockman, and @evavivalt nber.org/papers/w34040
NEW PAPER: Our aging grid is buckling under demand rising faster than any time in 40+ years. Policymakers have a once-in-a-generation chance to unite behind a fix: a macrogrid. Why? It: ✅ Imposes a low burden on taxpayers ✅ Is pro-market ✅ Boosts national security
The OBBBA functionally undoes all of the time-saving benefits of the TCJA. Happy tax filing y'all!
The OBBBA functionally undoes all of the time-saving benefits of the TCJA. Happy tax filing y'all!
Two noteworthy bills in this package: 1. Build Now Act - A budget-neutral approach to our nation's zoning crisis 2. Build More Housing Near Transit Act - Protects taxpayers & transit riders alike from federal transit grants to cities that ban housing near transit
New bipartisan housing package from Tim Scott and Elizabeth Warren just dropped — and it's good!
🎓 New working paper: "Communism in the Classroom: Long-Run Effects of an Experiment" (with Matti Mitrunen)
A new paper finds that when large investors buy up single-family homes in the suburbs, rents in the area fall, along with levels of class/racial segregation
New entrants who take up the rental housing are poorer, younger, racially diverse. It makes sense — these are families who couldn't afford to buy into these suburban (and generally upwardly mobile) neighborhoods. 3/
Had fun hosting for the first time! Check out my conversation with Rep. @JakeAuch about what Dems need to do to win back the working class (spoiler: don't be condescending!) bostonglobe.com/2025/07/24/opi…
.@ZephyrTeachout insists that America’s food system “is rigged in favor of big retailers and suppliers in several ways” that drive up prices for consumers. @judgeglock explains why her argument is incoherent:
The anti-things getting better coalition is revving its engines
This is going to be my Carthago delenda est in all public engagements going forward.
👉🏼 “The present experience rating standards in the federal act should be repealed so that a state can have any type of experience rating it desires, or none at all if it prefers a uniform rate on all employers.” 💯