In recent years, the Supreme Court has largely abandoned the use of often ambiguous legislative history to interpret statutory language, as justices across the ideological spectrum have embraced Justice Antonin Scalia’s textualist methodology. However, in a new essay for SCOTUSblog, Adam J. White draws attention to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s overlooked concurrence in the tariff case to warn that textualism’s opponents may be gaining new steam in a post-Chevron world.
The economic burden of child-rearing is front-loaded, but the most important federal support for families—the child tax credit (CTC)—is distributed in even, annual payments of $2,200 across the first 17 years of a child’s life. As Congress considers a second reconciliation package, AEI welfare expert Matt Weidinger and Katharine B. Stevens propose giving parents the option to draw future CTC payments forward to better support child-rearing without increasing federal spending.
How much can promoting economic growth reduce the federal budget deficit? In a research paper in Entrepreneurship and Innovation Policy and the Economy, R. Glenn Hubbard and coauthors assess the potential effects of seven types of pro-growth economic policies on the United States’ fiscal imbalances.
As the capabilities of artificial intelligence expand, the temptation for it to supplant the human element in politics will grow. Philip Wallach considers Albania’s recent experiment with an artificial intelligence minister to weigh the broader consequences of this trend.
