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Never Let a Crisis End
November 5, 2024 | Howard Husock
Harvard Professor Edward Glaeser on the U.S. Housing Crisis
November 5, 2024 | Edward L. Glaeser
Again, Tariffs Didn’t Make American Manufacturing Great
November 4, 2024 | James Pethokoukis
Latest Student Loan Cancellation Proposal Could Be Biggest Yet
November 1, 2024 | Preston Cooper
Kamala Harris’s Policy Book Doesn’t Even Mention Immigration
November 1, 2024 | Matt Weidinger
A SNAP Reform Framework Focused on the Future
October 30, 2024 | Angela Rachidi
The Geography of Fertility — Where are the Babies?
October 30, 2024 | Brad Wilcox and Michael Pugh
American Opportunity Index 2024
October 30, 2024 | Joseph B. Fuller
A Reform Framework for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
October 30, 2024 | Angela Rachidi and Leslie Ford
The Black Men’s Burden Harris Ignores
October 29, 2024 | Howard Husock
How Workforce Education Can Boost Earnings and Fill Jobs
October 25, 2024 | Preston Cooper
Work Requirement Waivers Increased FoodShare Caseloads and Costs in Wisconsin
October 23, 2024 | Angela Rachidi
The College Enrollment Plunge Is the Biden Administration’s Disaster
October 23, 2024 | Preston Cooper
Poverty, Hardship, and Government Transfers
October 22, 2024 | Bruce D. Meyer, Jeehoon Han, and James Sullivan
Dueling Child Tax Credit Proposals: Harris vs. Vance
October 21, 2024 | Alex Brill, Kyle Pomerleau, and Stan Veuger
In the News
Are American Workers’ Wages Really Lagging Productivity?
The economic doomsayers have it wrong: Worker pay has tracked with productivity over the last 50 years.
The Dual Promise of the American Dream
A reform conservatism can revive the promise of the Dream for those kids facing long odds.
Forget the Cost of Living. What’s the Cost of Thriving in America?
Two conservative thinkers clash over whether the middle class is more prosperous than a generation ago.