FREOPP’s Dan Lips proposes a deal: Congress sends states more special education funding, and in return, states let parents choose a different school when theirs isn’t meeting their child’s needs. Families wouldn’t have to take their district to court to get their kids the help o/1mdRCqBsRx

Government overspending drives inflation and pushes interest rates higher, which makes homes, cars, and credit card debt harder to afford.

On @ceidotorg's @freethe_economy podcast with @RichardMorrison, FREOPP’s @AkashJC explains why affordability for American families will eal budget discipline in Washington.

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The 2023 law would have continued TANF, SNAP, and child care assistance for families earning up to 250% of the poverty line. Benefits would then have phased out gradually, so that a raise wouldn’t trigger a sudden loss of aid.

Joshua Bandoch explains why that approach costs too states should do instead:

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Joshua Bandoch, senior vice president of policy research at the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity says apprenticeships can be a pathway to success. Listen to the entire Overton Window Podcast here: mackinac.org/podcasts/the-o…

New @freethe_economy episode: @RichardMorrison interviews @AkashJC, president of the @FREOPP Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity. They discuss FREOPP’s recent publication Affording the American Dream and how to make a prosperous life more attainable for every American tps://t.co/HsXSO6InLH

Rural America trails the rest of the country on work, education, and marriage. More spending hasn’t closed the gap.

FREOPP’s @tanneronpolicy argues the party with real answers on farm policy, telemedicine, school choice, and licensing reform could win Congress:
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Here's the @FREOPP study we talked about in Ep 198: freopp.org/whitepapers/af…

Episode 198 of @freethe_economy is here! We cover what’s making housing so expensive (via @leonardo_damico, @esoltas & @audreyswang), the common good of the Constitution (via @ismurray), and jawboning from the @FCC (via @Ashkhen):
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Our guest for Ep 198 of @freethe_economy is @AkashJC Chougule, president of @FREOPP. We talk about FREOPP’s recent publication "Affording the American Dream" and how to make a prosperous life more attainable for every American family: youtube.com/watch?v=F1kuQ8… (2/3)

@AkashJC @FREOPP Meanwhile, @FREOPP recently released its Affording the American Dream handbook built on a simple but important thesis:

High prices are a symptom; bad policy is the disease.

Read here: freopp.org/whitepapers/af…

To this day, @AkashJC and his family celebrate July 15th as his father’s Americversary.

His family’s American Dream story has driven much of his work at @FREOPP.

But is that story still a possibility for many Americans today? On Ep. 15, we discuss affording the American Dream.

DSA membership has grown roughly 20x since 2016, not because Americans suddenly embraced socialism, but because costs have outpaced what families can manage and nobody has offered a credible alternative to “more government.”

FREOPP President @AkashJC says the fix is removing created, and many of those reforms already have support from both parties:

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When a raise pushes a family over the income limit, losing child care assistance is the biggest hit in 73% of U.S. counties.

FREOPP’s @Les_A_Ford lays out how states can replace abrupt cutoffs with gradual phasedowns so families can earn more without losing the care that makes //t.co/bAmEFGUFbr

Using the first public prior-authorization data, FREOPP's Grant Rigney has a new white paper on healthcare’s black box: prior approval denials.

Learn why unappealed denials fall hardest on lower-income enrollees, who are least able to fight back and most likely to go without:
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The narrow streets, corner shops, and small lots that give a town its "small-town feel" are illegal to build under most modern zoning.

FREOPP's @TheGattoniCelli uses Andy Griffith's real hometown, Mount Airy, NC, to show the reforms that would bring those neighborhoods back.
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How do we give people a real hand up?

Josh Bandoch of @FREOPP and @nicdunnutah explore how workforce development, apprenticeships, and career-focused education can help people bypass the benefit cliff and climb the economic ladder.

Many people who are trying to build a better life and get off welfare bump up against benefits cliffs.

Josh Bandoch from @FREOPP says that's why throwing more money at the program won't help people. It just makes the main problem worse.

What if the goal of welfare wasn’t simply to provide benefits, but to help people move beyond them?

Josh Bandoch of @FREOPP joins @nicdunnutah on Defending Ideas to discuss how teaching families financial skills can them avoid benefit cliffs and build stability.

FREOPP’s @TheGattoniCelli is discussing the housing affordability crisis and what we can do to fix it, at the Soda POP & Palmetto YIMBY fall meetup. It starts at 2 p.m. at Columbia GROW (1340 Elmwood Ave.).

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As of 2023, just 53% of Americans said they trust nonprofits and community groups, that’s down 4 points from the year before. FREOPP's @tanneronpolicy explains what falling trust means for civil society and how to rebuild it.

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