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June 23, 2024
Is Systemic Racism Responsible for the Increase in Child Mortality Rates?
…is the evidence for this? Surely the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow are still felt decades after they have ended, but the further we get away from these legal…
February 7, 2024
The Past and Future of Education Reform
…at Risk. How We Got Here During 1980 election, Ronald Reagan called for eliminating the new U.S. Department of Education (which Congress had created a year earlier, fulfilling Jimmy Carter’s…
November 14, 2023
Did Child Poverty Really Increase Last Year?
…CTC expansion who argue that its expiration has increased hardship sharply, requiring that it be reenacted—this time permanently. However, a new report from Jeehoon Han, Bruce Meyer, and Jim Sullivan indicates that…
October 27, 2023
What Happened to the American Dream?
…from medicine to nuclear power. The recent book by the Reaganite economic writer Jim Pethokoukis, “The Conservative Futurist,” makes an extended version of this argument, tracing our era of stagnation…
August 21, 2023
Four Shocking Truths about the American Economy! (Well, Shocking to Some.)
I recently wrote a brief essay, “Generative AI and Economic Growth,” for Exponential View, the great newsletter by Azeem Azhar. And I knew one particular passage would be sure to raise…