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| Jul 11, 2026 | New housing law targets affordability — what it means for homebuyers and sellers | The 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, which aims to increase the housing supply and address affordability, was passed by Congress on June 23 and automatically became law on Saturday after President Donald Trump declined to sign or veto it.
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| Jun 5, 2026 | Locked out: 3 outdated myths about manufactured homes | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
Manufactured homes have a reputation problem — but so did sardines, until foodies decided the humble little fish had a cool factor. Today’s homes have come a long way from the boxy trailers of the ... |
| Dec 23, 2025 | H-1B visa applicants face more disruptions amid social media checks and wage protection rules | The U.S. has started conducting online presence reviews of all H-1B and H-4 visa applicants in a bid to curb what it refers to as the “abuse” of the program.
The wage protection law proposed by the Department of Labour last week could dissu... |
| Jul 18, 2024 |
Manufactured housing group encouraged by FHA attention — but concerned about its portrayal | Last month, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) announced the launch of a new program designed to allow for the purchase, refinance or renovation of manufactured housing under a loan program sponsored by the Federal H... |
| Apr 4, 2024 | Carbon Pricing’s Giant Leap Forward | Sign up for Climate on the Ballot, our weekly newsletter with ideas for reporting on climate and the 2024 elections.
In March, the regulatory body governing international shipping “essentially committed” to setting a price on carbon emissio... |
| May 21, 2023 | Rise of the Black Republican | This week marks a milestone for African American Republicans in politics: Sen. Tim Scott (R-S.C.), the only Black Republican in the Senate, will formally launch his presidential campaign in North Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday.
Drivi... |
| Apr 14, 2023 | Why Friedman's free market needs basic income | Universal basic income is an idea usually associated with the political left. However, it also has surprising support from the Libertarian right in the form of Milton Friedman's negative income tax. Indeed, Friedman's case for NIT... |
| Apr 13, 2023 | What Americans still want from government reform: 11 takeaways | President Biden heads toward the 2024 campaign with the federal government’s job rating in decline, support for a smaller government increasing, and the demand for major government reform at a 30-year high. Biden not only needs to reverse t... |
| Dec 30, 2022 | Proposal For A New US Social Safety Net: Direct Cash Support And One-Stop Shop | Rapid advances in technology have made our lives remarkably convenient. Today, sitting in our homes, we can order anything from groceries to electronics to books to cars. We can request cleaning services, plan travel, speak with medical pro... |
| Sep 6, 2022 | Signs of a midterm backlash are mounting for the GOP after Roe was overturned. Here are 3 proposals put forward by Republicans to support families. | Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) departs the US Capitol on April 27, 2022. STEFANI REYNOLDS/AFP via Getty Images
Republicans face a potential backlash in November after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade.
A new WSJ poll s... |
| Jul 20, 2022 | What Americans still want from government reform—a midsummer update | Americans head into the 2022 campaign season with record-setting doubts about the federal government’s faithful execution of the laws. Public demand for “very major” government reform is at a twenty-year high, while confidence in government... |
| Jan 4, 2022 | 3 ways remote work could remake America | It’s not just another perk in a benefits package — remote work could fundamentally reshape the urban geography of the United States.
Where we live has been dictated by where we can find a good job. That truism has defined much of where Amer... |
| Dec 23, 2021 | Financial Stress Remains Widespread Two Years Into The Pandemic | Many People Continue Having Trouble Paying Their Bills getty |
| Nov 18, 2021 | Letters to the editor: Carbon pricing and GOP; Boulder Municipal Airport; rule of law; housing; California to Boulder carbon pricing; Tom Miers | Trudy Heller: Carbon pricing: Conservatives support it, too
Susan Secord and Mark Reynolds (Nov. 17 guest opinion) cite Democratic Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and “almost universal support among Democrats” in making the case for carbon pricing ... |
| Nov 15, 2021 | Digital Democracies: How Liberal Governments Can Adapt In The Technological Age | At the turn of the last millennium, there was a wave of optimism surrounding new technologies and the empowerment of the modern digital citizen. A decade later, protestors across North Africa and the Middle East leveraged platforms such as ... |
| Oct 19, 2021 | Manchin’s $60,000 income threshold for Biden’s expanded child tax credit could cause 37.4 million kids to lose out on federal aid | Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va) on Capitol Hill. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
Manchin is reportedly pitching a $US60 ($AU81),000 ($AU80,873) income cap for families to get the Biden child tax credit.
A new analysis indicates 37.4 million kids could ... |
| Jul 15, 2021 | The government is sending up to $300 monthly checks to families with kids starting today. Democrats want to make it permanent as a new form of Social Security. | President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
The US government is poised to send the first batch of child tax credit payments on Thursday.
Policymakers estimate 35.2 million families could see cash... |
| May 26, 2021 | Apple Faces Criticism Over Its Cooperation With China | Apple has faced heat in recent weeks over its compliance with Chinese laws in order to continue its operations in China. Obeying local law in China means that Apple shares consumer data with the government and censors content according to C... |
| Apr 2, 2021 | Profiting From Success: The Future Of Covid-19 Vaccine Pricing | Pricing Covid-19 vaccinesgetty |
| Mar 3, 2021 | President Biden’s Immigration Executive Actions: A Recap | In his first weeks in office, President Biden issued several executive actions focused on reevaluating and unwinding the panoply of protectionist immigration policies former President Trump set in place through executive branch action. Some... |
| Feb 24, 2021 | The benefits of Biden’s child allowance could be worth 8 times its cost, new report finds | President Joe Biden. Angela Weiss/AFP
A new report found that the benefits of Joe Biden’s proposed child allowance is worth eight times its cost.
The benefits include money back to taxpayers that would result from increases in childrens’ he... |
| Feb 24, 2021 | The benefits of Biden's child allowance could be worth 8 times its cost, new report finds | President Joe Biden. Angela Weiss/AFP
A new report found that the benefits of Joe Biden's proposed child allowance is worth eight times its cost.
The benefits include money back to taxpayers that would result from increases in children... |
| Feb 10, 2021 | Could Bipartisan Support Of The Gig Economy Finally Fix What’s Broken With Healthcare? | On June 17, 1775, after several hours of intense fighting, British soldiers drove the American militia from their position to win the Battle of Bunker Hill. While the victory came at a significant cost to the British, who at the time were a... |
| Jan 29, 2021 | A fully refundable child tax credit could do more harm than good, experts say. Here’s what they mean. | President Joe Biden’s proposal to establish a fully refundable tax credit has received mixed responses from experts and lawmakers.
Critics of the plan argue that fully refundable tax credits will not effectively address child poverty in the... |
| Nov 19, 2020 | The idea of American suburbs never lined up with reality, and the 2020 election proved it | President Donald Trump tried to appeal to an antiquated view of a white, 1950s suburbia throughout his reelection campaign. President-elect Joe Biden tried to appeal to a more diverse suburbia.
Most Americans believe themselves to live in s... |
| Nov 18, 2020 | Why Don't Conservatives Care About Copyright? | I’m certainly not the first person (especially on Techdirt) to point out that if conservatives are really concerned about online censorship, they should be putting copyright law under the microscope, rather than, or at least in addition to,... |
| Nov 17, 2020 | How the 2020 election revealed 2 Americas, divided by wealth and opportunity | The 2020 election represents a divide in the American Dream.
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Getty Images
The 2020 election confirmed a divide between rural America and urban America.
Big cities and dense suburbs went for Biden, and less-populated areas... |
| Nov 15, 2020 | How the 2020 election revealed 2 Americas, divided by wealth and opportunity | The 2020 election represents a divide in the American Dream. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Getty Images
The 2020 election confirmed a divide between rural America and urban America.
Big cities and dense suburbs went for Biden, and less-populated areas... |
| Nov 1, 2020 | Energy Regulator FERC Finds Itself Cornered Over Climate Change | The regulator of the United States’ wholesale electricity markets finds itself backed into a very tight corner, of its own making, over the issue of climate change. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has spent the last three years iss... |
| Sep 29, 2020 | Why Central Planning In Higher Education Doesn’t Work | A clinical doctor teaching a group of medical students at hospital.getty |
| Apr 1, 2020 | If The Virus Can Decimate Global Economies So Can Climate Change | STAMFORD, CT - MARCH 20: Health workers change personal protective equipment at a coronavirus ... [+] (COVID-19) drive thru testing location operated by Murphy Medical Associates at Cummings Park on March 20, 2020 in Stamford, Connecticut. ... |
| Mar 23, 2020 | Do Your Part, Rights Holders: Open The Vaults! | For those who can stay at home, please do. We've all been advised to socially distance -- the safest thing anyone can do in their individual capacity. |
| Mar 23, 2020 | Do Your Part, Rights Holders: Open The Vaults! | For those who can stay at home, please do. We’ve all been advised to socially distance — the safest thing anyone can do in their individual capacity. |
| Mar 19, 2020 | Progress On Campus Free Speech? | By the time the Class of 2020 started its freshman year in the fall of 2016, the Chicago Principles of Free Expression were emerging as a lodestar for higher education. The University of Chicago had assembled a Committee on Freedom of Expre... |
| Nov 12, 2019 | Techdirt Podcast Episode 232: Copying Is Not Theft | We've said it before (and even put it on a t-shirt) and we'll say it again: copying is not theft, and intellectual "property" is anything but. In September, the Niskanen Center published an excellent paper exploring this... |
| Nov 12, 2019 | Techdirt Podcast Episode 232: Copying Is Not Theft | We’ve said it before (and even put it on a t-shirt) and we’ll say it again: copying is not theft, and intellectual “property” is anything but. In September, the Niskanen Center published an excellent paper exploring this issue and explainin... |
| Sep 12, 2019 | Intellectual Property Is Neither Intellectual, Nor Property: Discuss | Well over a decade ago I tried to explain why things like copyright and patents (and especially trademarks) should not be considered “intellectual property,” and that focusing on the use of “property” helped to distort nearly every policy d... |
| Sep 12, 2019 | Intellectual Property Is Neither Intellectual, Nor Property: Discuss | Well over a decade ago I tried to explain why things like copyright and patents (and especially trademarks) should not be considered "intellectual property," and that focusing on the use of "property" helped to distort n... |
| Aug 29, 2018 | Should Congress Treat Impeachable Offenses Cumulatively? | Are high crimes cumulative? This is not a question that either Congress or scholars have had much reason to consider, but President Trump’s failings have made it relevant. Moreover, the answer to that question might well matter for conscien... |
| Jun 14, 2018 | Boulder governments could end up paying in climate change lawsuit | The Denver law firm handling a lawsuit filed by Boulder County and the city of Boulder versus ExxonMobil and Suncor Energy seeking to recover damages linked to climate change will be paid 20 percent of any gross damages the plaintiffs might... |
| Jun 24, 2016 | The Path Forward on Encryption: The McCaul-Warner Commission | The current encryption debate is gridlocked. For the past year, privacy advocates, civil libertarians, Department of Justice attorneys, cryptographers, and others have been stonewalling one another, exchanging a barrage of bumper sticker sl... |
| May 19, 2016 | Artificial Intelligence and Agency Bonds
Artificial Intelligence and Agency Bonds | Artificial intelligence.
Look, Two Sigma is a big smart hedge fund that has done well and made its founders rich and has prospective recruits wear virtual-reality headsets for some reason. And I am sure they are wonderful at the artificial ... |
| Economists say adding a child tax credit work requirement would harm the neediest kids | Key details of the expanded child tax credit (CTC) may change in the coming weeks as Congressional Democrats continue to debate their 2022 budget proposal, including whether or not the lowest income families will receive it.
This year, the ... |
| Romney child-payment proposal would spend more than Biden plan — but also aims to cut welfare programs | GOP Sen. Mitt Romney unveiled a plan to give households up to $4,200 annually for each young child, offering a Republican answer to President Biden’s calls for more support to families with children.
While Romney is calling for even more ai... |
| Electrek green energy brief: Bifacial solar panels shining, Walmart and Project Gigaton, more | SNEC 11th (2017) International Photovoltaic Power Generation Conference & Exhibition (SNEC 2017) in Shanghai: The next big solar module trend on display – And the answer is bifacial solar panels. Including the ‘world’s first full-size I... |
| There’s new optimism the $300 monthly child tax credit checks can be renewed — but the relief may look different | Monthly child tax credit payments of up to $300 per child ended last year.
While past efforts to renew the policy fell apart, there’s new optimism something could come together soon.
Advocates hope an enhanced child tax credit can be includ... |
| Mitt Romney introduces new plan to send most parents up to $350 monthly checks per kid | Republican Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah at a hearing on Capitol Hill on January 11, 2022. Greg Nash/Pool/AFP via Getty Images
Romney rolled out a measure to provide up to $350 monthly checks to most families with kids.
Only families earning at ... |
| The government is sending up to $300 monthly checks to families with kids starting today. Democrats want to make it permanent as a new form of Social Security. | President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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| Why blood makes up over 2.5% of all U.S. exports | Blood is big business in the United States, making up 2.69% of the country's exports, according to the Census Bureau.
Since there's no substitute for human blood, demand can be hard to meet. During the pandemic, a blood shortage p... |
| Mitt Romney proposes giving American families an extra $3,000 a year | Senator Mitt Romney (R-Utah) unveiled a plan on Thursday that would provide American families with a bigger financial boost than what’s proposed in the Biden administration’s $1.9 trillion relief package. But both plans fail to completely c... |
| Manchin's $60,000 income threshold for Biden's expanded child tax credit could cause 37.4 million kids to lose out on federal aid | Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va) on Capitol Hill. Drew Angerer/Getty Images
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