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November 1, 2024
Latest Student Loan Cancellation Proposal Could Be Biggest Yet
…unrealistic assumptions (for instance, by assuming borrowers will apply at implausibly low rates). The danger of an underestimate is even greater here. Subjective decisions will govern the scale of cancellation,…
October 31, 2024
The Republican Marriage Advantage: Partisanship, Marriage, And Family Stability In The Trump Era
…both matter in determining who is married, as I (Wilcox) noted in Get Married: Why Americans Must Defy the Elites, Forge Strong Families, and Save Civilization. Class-wise, the clear majority of…
October 30, 2024
The Geography of Fertility — Where are the Babies?
…to Americans interested in starting, growing or raising a family. Brad Wilcox (@BradWilcoxIFS on X) is the Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and a nonresident…
October 25, 2024
How Workforce Education Can Boost Earnings and Fill Jobs
…limiting certain wealthy universities’ access to federal student loans, which are currently a loss-maker for the government. There is a danger, of course, that introducing federal funding might also introduce…
October 9, 2024
Learning the Right Lessons from the “China Shock”
…U.S. competition with imports from China. Those economists published another important paper, along with economists Daron Acemoglu and Brendan Price, that found import growth from China led to 200,000 fewer jobs per…
September 25, 2024
The Promise — and Danger — of Kamala Harris’s YIMBYism
Vice President Kamala Harris is not wrong to emphasize that the best solution to our housing shortage is the construction of new homes. She’s actually enunciated something close to a program to do so: tax…
September 17, 2024
The Blue State Family Exodus: Families Are Migrating to Red and Purple States
…Brad Wilcox, Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, is the author of Get Married: Why…
September 12, 2024
Surgeon general’s dour picture of parenthood misses the mark
…and sober stares between Danielle and me. My happiness — and our marital quality — took a definite dip that year.” My experience in that chapter of my life dovetails…
September 9, 2024
The Nanny State Is Not the Answer to Parents’ Challenges
…change,” the surgeon general writes. Too bad he has the wrong thing in mind. Naomi Schaefer Riley is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Brad Wilcox, a nonresident…
August 27, 2024
Poverty Isn’t Neglect, and Money Isn’t Always the Answer
…Fortunately, it’s not true. The claim that children are separated from their parents when they are in no real danger but simply lack of material resources is repeated often. Advocates…