September 10, 2026: In September, the Trump Administration asked the Supreme Court to overturn a lower-court ruling blocking the use of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s Systematic Alien Ver...

Among users initially on a chronological feed, 7 weeks of exposure to X’s algorithmic feed in 2023 shifted political attitudes and account-following behaviour in a more conservative direction compared...

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This tool tracks declines in the number of people enrolled in the ACA marketplaces and Medicaid: two sources of coverage that have been crucial to delivering affordable health care to people with low ...

Dani Rodrik explains why strong productivity growth in the sector is as welcome as it is unexpected.

Starting Sept. 1, the Trump administration will withhold about $9.8 billion in extra annual funding that helps hospitals cover the difference between Medicaid payments and the actual cost of services.

August 24, 2026: In May, Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed the state’s fourth income tax cut in four years, continuing a march toward her stated goal of complete elimination of Arkansas’...

Why we’re publishing a free, searchable, and ungated archive featuring a quarter-century of USAID evaluation reports.

Cristobal Young, Charles Varner, Ithai Z. Lurie, Richard Prisinzano, Millionaire Migration and Taxation of the Elite: Evidence from Administrative Data, American Sociological Review, Vol. 81, No. 3, J...

When 30 States Raised Minimum Wages, What Happened to Pay and Jobs?

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A looming deadline may force some states to end SNAP next year.

The CEO says the agency is proving it's possible to have “less people and better results.”

The plans include arresting migrants in Ohio and quickly putting them on deportation flights to crisis-stricken Haiti, the internal documents indicate.

New research also shows that children and high-risk adult populations have been particularly affected.

Candidates affiliated with (or sympathetic to) the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA) have recently won several Democratic primaries.

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Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...

New work requirements and restrictions on SNAP have kicked millions off the benefit rolls, with more reductions to come.

The New Jersey senator takes a unique, long-game approach to a top Democratic goal.

“Based on simple math, these outbreak responses—which require rapid, timely responses—are going to be greatly diminished,” the former CDC lab director tells WIRED.

EL PASO, TEXAS — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released final regulations Thursday concerning administration of federal immigration law’s “public charge” provision, which applies to m...

More people are losing SNAP, and faster, than the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) predicted, making it crucial that Congress delay an enormous cost shift to states.

This data interactive shows SNAP payment error rates for the U.S. and for each state from fiscal year 2003 through fiscal year 2025.

SpaceX’s blockbuster bond sale is weakening so quickly in the secondary market that traders say they can’t recall another recent deal that widened this sharply.

Founded in 1920, the NBER is a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, an...