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August 6, 2024
Trump’s Tax Law Diminished Incentives for Charitable Giving, But We Can Fix It
…a danger in reserving the tax incentive for charity to the wealthiest Americans. It puts that incentive — part of the tax code since 1917 — at risk of being…
June 26, 2024
Reducing Racial Disparities in Foster Care Might Endanger Black Children
…suspected incidents of maltreatment solely because a fetus or a newborn is exposed to drugs. Such policies of course run the risk of leaving more kids in danger. Moreover, because…
December 21, 2023
Our Policies to Address Homelessness Are Failing
…permanent assistance to a lucky few rather than offer temporary assistance to families in danger of losing their home. That’s not to say we should lose sight of the long-run…
December 18, 2023
Kids aren’t for everyone. But it’s better for everyone if you have them.
…especially in the early years. W. Bradford Wilcox, a colleague of mine at the American Enterprise Institute who studies family structure, speculates that in an increasingly atomized society, parenthood is…
December 1, 2023
Red States Can Lead the Way on Marriage and Fatherhood
“If we care about our children, if we care about the vibrancy of our communities, we have no choice but to have the conversation” about absent fatherhood, said Chris Sprowls, who…
November 27, 2023
For kids, marriage still matters
…by promoting the success sequence. Utah’s youth deserve to know this proven pathway to a better life. Brad Wilcox, a professor of sociology at the University of Virginia and director…
November 21, 2023
Defining Poverty Up
Thirty years ago, the late Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D., N.Y.) wrote a seminal essay titled “Defining Deviancy Down.” He argued that Americans had “become accustomed to alarming levels of crime…
November 11, 2023
Why is NYC Telling Teachers to Not Keep Kids Safe?
…a family “just needs help, such as access to child care assistance, mental health counseling or concrete resources,” Commissioner Jess Dannhauser announced at a press conference in mid-October. The revised…
November 9, 2023
What Dems — And NYC — Can Learn From The GOP’s Bronx City Council Win
…and reasonable” when they argued that “any substantial influx of the poor carries the danger of crime and decay,” Cuomo wrote. “Those blacks” in Queens’ Hollis “fortunate to have homes…
October 27, 2023
What Happened to the American Dream?
…Mills to Robert Bork and Barbara Jordan, whose ideas illuminate the larger transformations Leonhardt describes. The book’s argument belongs to a genre, reconsiderations of neoliberalism, that’s somewhat familiar by now…