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Federal subsidies

Economic Nationalism

China Is Scaling Back Its Failed Semiconductor Industrial Policies. America Should Do the Same.

The warning signs are flashing "don't be like China."

Eric Boehm | 1.10.2023 11:05 AM

Clean Energy

Subsidies Won't Fix the Energy Industry

Ending subsidies can help cut emissions and energy costs.

Jorge Velasco | 11.26.2022 7:00 AM

Jones Act

Biden's New Industrial Policy Will Fail, Just Like Industrial Policy Always Fails

While campaigning for the midterm election, the president is promoting a disastrous and expensive form of economic protectionism.

Peter Suderman | 10.17.2022 3:29 PM

Hurricanes

Government Subsidies Encouraged Millions To Move Into Hurricane Ian's Destructive Path

Plus: Reason livestream on right-wing populism, the government can't solve the fentanyl crisis, and more...

Elizabeth Nolan Brown | 9.29.2022 9:32 AM

Clean Energy

How a Massachusetts Power Plant Illustrates America's Fraught Shift to Green Energy

Brayton Point was a coal-fired plant that tried to clean up its act. Protesters and politicians demanded its closure. A new offshore wind project won't be sufficient to replace it.

Eric Boehm | 8.12.2022 1:00 PM

Free Trade

The Export-Import Bank's New 'Made in America' Corporate Welfare Scheme

The bank's new domestic financing program is a poorly defined, unnecessary exercise that will throw taxpayer money at projects the private capital markets have deemed too risky.

Eric Boehm | 4.20.2022 12:40 PM

Affordable Housing

The Time the Federal Government Built a Flawed Housing Project and Tore It Down 20 Years Later

The government has learned nothing about affordable housing in the 50 years since Pruitt-Igoe came toppling down.

Howard Husock | 3.16.2022 8:00 AM

College

Biden Dumps Free Community College From Spending Bill

These schools are already extremely accessible to low-income students. Don’t mess with their flexibility.

Scott Shackford | 10.28.2021 2:05 PM

Coronavirus

What Did Public Schools Do With COVID Relief Money? Whatever They Wanted.

Track and field equipment and salaries for custodians are among the goods and services school districts purchased with COVID-19 relief money. Figuring out what they did with the rest of it remains difficult.

Brian Doherty | 10.22.2021 11:23 AM

Student Loans

Biden's Latest Round of Student Loan Debt Forgiveness Is an Indictment of Federal Higher Education Subsidies

Thirty-five years after Bill Bennett sounded the alarm about student loan defaults, we still haven't learned a damn thing.

Mike Riggs | 6.17.2021 4:00 PM

High Speed Rail

Feds Restore $929 Million in Funds for California's Billion-Dollar Bullet Train Boondoggle

A grant revoked under President Donald Trump will be returned.

Scott Shackford | 6.11.2021 2:15 PM

College

Biden Brings Back Plan for Free Community College

This is a subsidy for the schools, not the students.

Scott Shackford | 4.28.2021 1:40 PM

Broadband

Why Biden's Broadband Bonanza Is Likely to Fail

We already know how to affordably expand connectivity; government-run networks ain’t it.

Andrea O'Sullivan | 4.13.2021 8:30 AM

Debates 2020

Democratic Candidates Acknowledge Poor Housing Supply, but Not How Government Causes It

More federal spending won’t make housing more accessible as long as regulations and zoning drive up prices.

Scott Shackford | 11.20.2019 11:21 PM

Electric cars

Sen. Chuck Schumer Proposes Billions in Government Handouts to Kill Gas-Powered Cars

Say hello to "Cash for Clunkers 2.0."

Noah Shepardson | 10.28.2019 3:30 PM

Low-income housing

The Corrupt Politics of Low-Income Housing

State officials gleefully line their own pockets at taxpayers' expense.

Christian Britschgi | 1.15.2018 6:00 AM

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