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November 14, 2024
The Rotting of the College Board
…identifying lower-income students and underrepresented minorities who will thrive. These students do not score as high on average as students from affluent communities or white and Asian students. But a…
November 1, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Policy Book Doesn’t Even Mention Immigration
…border crisis in U.S. history — probably the largest such event in human history,” according to Mark Krikorian of CIS. Secondary effects have been equally prominent. Customs and Border Protection data indicate…
October 30, 2024
The Geography of Fertility — Where are the Babies?
…care of kids. Moreover, blue states’ commitment to higher education, an egalitarian family life and delayed family formation is also a plus in Cahn and Carbone’s book as they believe…
October 25, 2024
How Workforce Education Can Boost Earnings and Fill Jobs
…the state offers programs in a diverse range of industries. Other popular courses include training to enter the healthcare field, in roles such as clinical medical assistant or phlebotomy technician.…
October 15, 2024
Lefty NYC Council Add-Ons to Mayor’s ‘City of Yes’ Would Worse Housing Crisis
…housing has crumbled. Here’s something Speaker Adams and the entire City Council should ponder: Under Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei, that country’s largest city, Buenos Aires, precipitously “scrapped” its rent…
October 15, 2024
Why Should the US Wish to Be More Like China?
…works because their economy is embedded in an authoritarian state with a compliant industrial sector. Rather than uniting our allies, the protectionist policies of the Trump and Biden administrations have…
October 11, 2024
Let’s Open the Black Box of Selective College Admissions
…black and Latino first-year enrollment plunged, while the number of first-year Asian-American students spiked. At Wellesley, black student enrollment fell by nearly half and that of Latino students by almost a third. At…
October 9, 2024
Learning the Right Lessons from the “China Shock”
…the extent that adverse effects on import-competing workers created Keynesian aggregate-demand reductions, post-2007 economic slack was a major contributor. The paper is well titled: “Protectionism is Failing and Wrongheaded: An…
October 9, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Main Priority Is Expanding Welfare, Not Strengthening the Middle Class
…Middle-Class Family,’ Explains Wife When Husband Asks Why the Car Is on Fire.” It all smacks of a career politician with significant income and assets trying desperately to appeal to middle-income voters. And…
October 3, 2024
Stop the insanity. Our national debt now tops $35 trillion…
…monthly mortgage payment for a median-priced home up by over $1,000. Lower-income Americans spend a greater share of their income on housing, so such rising costs are just one example of…