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A Policy Stack to Save America

Charts of the Year

How to end low-wage work forever, Part 2: the FAQ

How Many Businesses Are Using AI?

The jobs chart that really has us worried

Why Place Matters More Than Ever

How many manufacturing workers are there?

No, Governor DeSantis, H-1Bs aren’t going to cashiers

Arrested Development

The immigration system shouldn’t care about your job description

Where any SNAP lapse will bite hardest

Peeling the AI Anxiety Onion

There’s a better way to allocate H-1B visas

Fat Bear Week and the Fate of the World

Abundance: the Missing Piece

Explainer: Trump’s $100,000 H-1B fee rule

How to end low-wage work forever

Blunt tariffs undermine efforts to reshore high-tech manufacturing

US statistical agencies deserve support and funding. They also need to reform.

Re-industrializing the heartland will require experimentation

The geography of American exceptionalism

A viral chart on recent graduate unemployment is misleading

All Quiet on the AI Front

The surprising, nationwide rebound in economic dynamism

How to Fortify Your Town Against Shocks

Young families have stopped leaving big cities, for now

Not Just Suburban Sprawl — Dense Places Can Still Build

Student visas are a critical pipeline for high-skilled, highly-paid talent

AI: To Steer or Not To Steer

The U.S. loses most international graduates it trains. That problem is about to get worse.

Trump’s top-down economic agenda needs bottom-up perspective

Tariffs and Manufacturing Jobs: Three Big Problems

Introducing the Trade Policy Dashboard

Tired of Winning: Why Peter Navarro Hates BMW

The Abundance housing policy that already exists

Designing a Gold Card Visa to Maximize Benefits to American Communities

What is GDP good for?

Opportunity Zones: A Quiet Revolution in Housing Policy

The New Geography of Manufacturing Jobs

Raising the SALT cap will not help low-income, rural, or pro-Trump places

Transfers, deficits, and your community: How will you know?

The astonishing fiscal effects of high-skilled immigration

No, we are not producing too many STEM graduates

Debunking high-skilled immigration myths (or, why stapling green cards to diplomas is a bad idea)