January 11, 2022 | Urban Economics
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In "Building from the Ground Up: Reclaiming the American Housing Boom", Kevin Erdmann documents how an inappropriate fear of excessive homebuilding led to a self-fulfilling prophecy of recession and financial crisis, which continues to inflate the cost of living and limit economic potential for American families today.
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January 11, 2022 | Corporate Welfare
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An estimated $95 billion is spent annually by state and local governments on economic development subsidies. These subsidies remain a tenacious problem, even as support grows for phasing them out. My research suggests that an interstate compact offers an opportunity for a cooperative solution. West Virginia was one of the original six states that proposed legislation to create such a compact in 2019, and the state has an opportunity to become the nation’s leader in moving this initiative forward.
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January 7, 2021 | Healthcare
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One of the most common tools of consumer-directed healthcare is the combination of health savings accounts (HSAs) with high-deductible health plans. However, many restrictions limit the consumer empowerment that this combination was intended to deliver. For example, HSAs, which were introduced in 2003 as part of the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act, cannot be used to pay for the fees or premiums of a DPC, AHP, or HCSM plan. Congress can rectify the unfavorable treatment of alternative healthcare financing arrangements by including them as eligible HSA medical expenses.
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