Economics

Center on Wealth & Poverty
Seattle school year ban
Caitlyn McKenney
October 2, 2024
Economics, Homelessness
5

As Affordable Housing Crumbles, Reconsider School Year Eviction Bans

Caitlyn McKenney
October 2, 2024
Economics, Homelessness
5
In 2021, the City of Seattle instituted a school year eviction moratorium. Households with a child under age 18 on the lease cannot be evicted for nonpayment of rent from the start of the school year in September through the end in June. The legislation may have been crafted in goodwill — to keep children housed and their lives stable — but the outcomes have been disastrous. Read More ›
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Center on Wealth & Poverty
October 1, 2024
Energy
1

Jonathan Lesser Discusses Devastating Net-Zero Policies with Brandi Kruse

Center on Wealth & Poverty
October 1, 2024
Energy
1

Jonathan Lesser appeared on Brandi Kruse’s [un]Divided podcast as her “Sundays with Subscribers” guest to discuss the devastating consequences of net-zero policies in the Pacific Northwest. A recent report authored by Lesser and Mitchell Rolling revealed that net-zero energy policies in Washington State and Oregon will produce staggering costs to individuals and businesses without providing any meaningful environmental benefits. You Read More ›

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Low angle view of lonely patient in full length in modern hospital waiting lobby room walking impatiently as he waits for good or bad news from his doctor
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Marvin Olasky
September 27, 2024
Homelessness
5

How Politicians Strafed the Cuckoo’s Nest

Marvin Olasky
September 27, 2024
Homelessness
5
State hospitals closed. Tens of thousands among the insane hit the streets. Liberal journalists began focusing on homelessness in the 1980s in part because they could blame the Reagan administration for it, but also because about 650,000 individuals who would have been hospitalized thirty years earlier were on the streets. Read More ›
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Person with Wind Turbine and Dollar Bills: Renewable Energy and Finance Integration Concept
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Discovery Institute
September 18, 2024
Energy
6

Net-Zero Economy Plan Will Hit Consumers with Huge Electric Bills Warns New Energy Report from Discovery Institute

Discovery Institute
September 18, 2024
Energy
6
Net-zero energy policies in the Pacific Northwest will produce staggering costs to individuals and businesses without providing any meaningful environmental benefits, warns a monumental new research report from Discovery Institute’s Reasonable Energy program. Read More ›
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Before sunrise solar power plants
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Jonathan Lesser
September 11, 2024
Energy
5

Do Green Energy Subsidies Work?

Jonathan Lesser
September 11, 2024
Energy
5
Congress has not been the only institution shoveling subsidies to green energy. Many states have provided their own subsidies, especially the mid-Atlantic states that are forcing ratepayers to purchase electricity from offshore wind projects at prices many times higher than the market. States have also enacted renewable portfolio standards forcing electric utilities to increasing percentages of electricity from renewable sources that would otherwise never be built. Read More ›