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  • GW WonkCast S7E1 – “Let’s Just Make It All Free”: A Conversation on State Welfare Policy with Matt Bruenig & David Trimmer

    GW WonkCast S7E1 – “Let’s Just Make It All Free”: A Conversation on State Welfare Policy with Matt Bruenig & David Trimmer

    The GW WonkCast has returned! Season 7, Episode 1 begins after nearly a year hiatus with a new team, co-host Ali Ulin, co-host Nathan Varnell and producer Annie Robey. In this episode, former Brief Policy Perspectives staff writer David Trimmer (MPA ’23) interviews Matt Bruenig, founder of the People’s Policy Project think tank and distinguished…

  • “Let’s Just Make It All Free”: A Conversation on State Welfare Policy with Matt Bruenig

    “Let’s Just Make It All Free”: A Conversation on State Welfare Policy with Matt Bruenig

    David Trimmer is a staff writer and a second-year MPA student. Matt Bruenig is the founder of the People’s Policy Project, a think tank that aims to “publish ideas and analysis that assist in the development of an economic system that serves the many, not the few.” He has also worked for the think tank Demos…

  • Uncapping the SALT Deduction Won’t Help Working Class Families

    Uncapping the SALT Deduction Won’t Help Working Class Families

    David Trimmer is a staff writer and a second-year MPA student. Introduction On February 8, 2023, Congress’s Bipartisan SALT Caucus relaunched with the hope of repealing the cap on the State and Local Tax (SALT) deduction. The SALT deduction allows taxpayers to deduct the money they paid in state and local taxes from their federal taxable…

  • Sexism and the City

    Sexism and the City

    Julia Vanella is a contributing writer. She graduated from Trachtenberg with an MPP in December 2022. Women’s Unaccounted for Needs in Urban Design Cities and corresponding infrastructure have historically been built, designed and planned by men — making their perspective the primary one dictating how cities should function. As a result, urban design and infrastructure often…

  • Op-ed: It’s Time to Expand the House of Representatives

    Op-ed: It’s Time to Expand the House of Representatives

    David Trimmer is a staff writer and a second-year MPA student. Introduction Since 1913, the number of seats in the U.S. House of Representatives has remained at 435. In that time, the average number of constituents each seat represents has more than tripled, going from 223,505 in 1913 to around 760,000 today. The U.S. has a…