Archive - FREOPP Highlights of The FREOPP.org Substack

Does marriage reduce poverty?

Plus: Should Boomers rent out their empty rooms; will generative AI leave low-income workers behind; and how to fix a wasteful health care subsidy

Jun 28 •

FREOPP Highlights

May 2025

Americans pay 4x more for medicine—do we have to?

Plus: Assessing the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act on wages and social mobility; and how Congress and states can give parents more educational choice

May 31 •

FREOPP Highlights

April 2025

Tariffs won’t help poor Americans

Plus: How the Fed could ease market volatility; Utah sets the standard for welfare policy; lowering drug costs by clearing “patent thickets;” and FREOPP…

Apr 26 •

FREOPP Highlights

February 2025

How to lead the world in health care innovation

Plus: Why NIH funding caps could mean more money for research; and reform proposals to benefit low-income taxpayers

Feb 22 •

FREOPP Highlights

January 2025

States can fight degree inflation (and they should)

Plus: Making outcomes-based funding work in higher ed; how school choice fared at the ballot box; and ways that DOGE can improve the U.S. welfare system

Jan 25 •

FREOPP Highlights

December 2024

Reviewing 2024 in inflation, housing, and health care

Plus: Has religious diversity weakened America?

Dec 28, 2024 •

FREOPP Highlights

November 2024

Can a Bitcoin reserve save the U.S. from its debt crisis?

Plus: A FREOPP recommendation for DOGE; federal benefits and digital IDs; and the electoral future of the two major political parties

Nov 30, 2024 •

FREOPP Highlights

A post-election plan to expand opportunity

From affordable housing to energy policy to criminal justice, FREOPP has recommendations for policymakers looking to bring more opportunity to the…

Nov 2, 2024 •

FREOPP Highlights

September 2024

When welfare policy pushes low-income Americans off a cliff

Plus: How to build a compassionate monetary policy; how to reform federal K-12 education; and how to lower drug costs

Sep 28, 2024 •

FREOPP Highlights

August 2024

Inflation is still too high for poor Americans

Plus: Assessing Bidenomics; Kamala Harris on health care, poverty, and welfare; and a new look at FREOPP.org

Aug 31, 2024 •

FREOPP Highlights

June 2024

The sweeping effects of closing a nuclear plant

Plus: A better way for the executive branch to address student loan debt; how weak patents keep drug prices high; and five strategies for helping the…

Jun 29, 2024 •

FREOPP Highlights

May 2024

Where you live changes how you experience inflation

Plus: The latest data on the ROI of a college degree; what happens when drug companies “product hop”; and a new U.S. Supreme Court case about how cities…

May 25, 2024 •

FREOPP Highlights

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