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The Tax Cut and Jobs Act (TCJA), signed into law by President Donald Trump in December 2017, is one of the most significant policy reforms passed by Congress in recent times. Following this tax reform, individuals, families, and communities across the country have been reaping the benefits of bigger paychecks, lower taxes, and more economic opportunities. In this study, we model the effect of the TCJA on every state and congressional district in the country.

What is in a school name? When communities name schools, they are communicating to the public, very much including children, which values they hold dear. Naming schools, like naming other public spaces, such as streets, buildings, and parks, is an opportunity for communities to declare what or who should be honored. It could be a person, a place, an idea, or a thing, but whatever name is selected says something about what a community considers important.

Current immigration practices, both legal and illegal, operate like a system of trans-national welfare outreach bringing millions of fiscally dependent individuals into the U.S.

Households headed by persons without a high school diploma impose a significant fiscal burden on other taxpayers.

The global warming policy debate is increasing the calls forreduction of carbon-dioxide and other greenhouse-gas emissions. The proposal to allow the EPA to broadly regulate emissions under theClean Air Act will impose higher costs on U.S. industries, leadingto slower economic growth and lower employment. This will causedecreased productivity of U.S. industries and lower returns onequity.

For the past seven years, the most prominent federalcrime-prevention initiative has been the Community OrientedPolicing Services (COPS) program, which gives grants to state andlocal law enforcement agencies to help them reduce crime byincreasing community policing services.

In 2001, 1.35 million children were born outside marriage.

More than 12,000 families across Arizona, Florida, Mississippi, and Tennessee, are using education savings accounts (ESAs) to pay for personal tutors, education therapists, private school tuition, and textbooks, to name a few possible uses. Lawmakers in Nevada and North Carolina have enacted similar laws.

Economic issues are a primary part of Trump’s appeal to his base

The American poverty level and Welfare Reform Legislation go hand in hand. Gain a better understanding of Poverty in America here.