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Social Policy

How eligibility criteria for unemployment benefits can penalize lower earners

22 Jan 2026 Danielle Jenkins
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Immigration

In light of harsh repression in Iran, the US should grant Temporary Protected Status to Iranians already here

21 Jan 2026 Idean Salehyan
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Social Policy

How Alaska's unemployment insurance system can pave the path to paid parental leave

15 Jan 2026 Will Raderman
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Social Policy

How site-neutral payment policies can save money for cancer patients and the chronically ill

15 Jan 2026 Sage Mehta
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Social Policy
Child Tax Credit

Rhode Island child tax credit would be bold, simple, and fiscally responsible

13 Jan 2026 Joshua McCabe
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Foundational Reading

Institutional renewal. Effective government. Prosperity.

12 Jan 2026 Ted Gayer
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State Capacity

Capability-based budgeting: A practical roadmap for getting started

19 Dec 2025 Solitaire Carroll
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Back to the future: 'Free labor' and life after mass employment

18 Dec 2025 Brink Lindsey
mass timber construction
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Climate and Energy

Senator Whitehouse reintroduces a Clean Competition Act, aiming to link industrial competitiveness and carbon advantage

18 Dec 2025 Jia-Shen Tsai
Civil Service Reform
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State Capacity

Demystifying the new president's management agenda

11 Dec 2025 Loren DeJonge Schulman, Gabe Menchaca
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Climate and Energy

America's fading carbon advantage: The wake-up call from COP30

11 Dec 2025 Jia-Shen Tsai
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Social Policy

The missing half of healthcare choice

10 Dec 2025 Katherine Hall
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Social Policy

With preapproved building plans local, state, and federal policymakers take aim at soft costs

09 Dec 2025 Andrew Justus
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State Capacity

Spotting 'concrete boats': Why 'solicitation sins' doom contracts to struggle (part 1)

08 Dec 2025 Neil Miller
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Climate and Energy

Why are utilities building tomorrow's grid with yesterday's technology?

05 Dec 2025 Rachel Levine
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Climate and Energy

The arithmetic of availability: Prospects for American grid dominance in 2030

25 Nov 2025 Kenneth Sercy, Liza Reed
Civil Service Reform
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Social Policy

Broaden the base, lower the (improper payment) rates

20 Nov 2025 Will Raderman
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Immigration

The global race for talent: Other nations are outpacing the U.S. on high-skill immigration

18 Nov 2025 Cecilia Ignacio
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State Capacity

Vendor capture and the limits of fast government reform

18 Nov 2025 Matthew Burton
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Abundance and Dynamism

Abundance of what? Abundance for what?

13 Nov 2025 Brink Lindsey
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