Christos Makridis

2 weeks ago | reason.org | Christos Makridis

Housing affordability is a pressing concern in cities across the United States. Rents have surged faster than general inflation in recent years, and the median price of an existing home surpassed $400,000 nationally in late 2024. Nearly half of renter households now spend over 30% of their income on rent (and a quarter spend over 50%), a level of cost-burden that was once rare.

2 weeks ago | reason.org | Christos Makridis

Christos Makridis is a senior fellow at Reason Foundation, working on issues such as education, tech policy, and economic issues. Makridis serves as an associate research professor at the W. P.

3 weeks ago | gallup.com | Christos Makridis

Survey MethodsThe Gallup CHRO Roundtable Q2 Survey 2024. N-Size=107Results for this Gallup poll are based on self-administered web surveys conducted each quarter in 2024. Q2 surveys were conducted May 11-25, 2024, with a random sample of 21,543 adults who are aged 18 and older, working full time or part time for organizations in the United States, and members of the Gallup Panel. For results based on this sample, the margin of sampling error is ±1.0 percentage points at the 95% confidence level.

1 month ago | ocregister.com | Christos Makridis |Patrick McLaughlin

California consistently ranks as the most regulated state in the country—getting so bad, in fact, that comedian Bill Maher recently told Gov. Gavin Newsom that he needs to “take a chainsaw” to California’s overgrown regulatory code.

1 month ago | the74million.org | Goldy Brown |Christos Makridis

Get stories like this delivered straight to your inbox. Sign up for The 74 Newsletter Student outcomes in K–12 education have largely stagnated over the recent decades. Despite incremental improvements in the 1990s and early 2000s, national academic performance peaked around 2013, while progress in closing achievement gaps among subgroups stalled even earlier.