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September 5, 2024
Hurt Pennsylvania’s Workers to Win Pennsylvania’s Votes?
…good-paying union jobs” and raise “serious questions” about the likelihood that the company would remain headquartered in Pittsburgh. The national-security argument here seems equally straightforward: Japan is one of the…
September 2, 2024
This Is How to Fix the Housing Crisis
…need to dust off our history books and remember how this country raised the legal alcohol drinking age. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 demanded states raise the minimum age…
August 16, 2024
The Harris Campaign’s Foolish Down-Payment-Assistance Scheme
On the surface, Kamala Harris’s proposal to provide $25,000 in down-payment assistance to first-time homebuyers looks to be an incentive for upward mobility. Historically, homeownership has been the foundation for wealth creation for…
August 6, 2024
Trump’s Tax Law Diminished Incentives for Charitable Giving, But We Can Fix It
…of medical research which the National Institutes for Health shies away from (think mRNA). Maintaining the charitable deduction and extending it to a wider economic range of taxpayers should be…
August 1, 2024
Two Outrageous Bills Kamala Harris Sponsored Would Crush Taxpayers
…legislation would have doubled the federal budget, sending the current $35-trillion national debt soaring to well over $55 trillion, without even considering its grim inflation and interest rate implications. President…
June 26, 2024
Reducing Racial Disparities in Foster Care Might Endanger Black Children
…The only racial or ethnic group currently subject to different treatment is Native children under the Indian Child Welfare Act, which (similar to the Minnesota law) requires different measures for…
June 23, 2024
Is Systemic Racism Responsible for the Increase in Child Mortality Rates?
…Native American communities, meanwhile, have long suffered from higher levels of violence and above-average rates of suicide. The isolation and sense of hopelessness in Native American territories is palpable —…
June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
When it comes to education, these have been the best of times and the worst of times. In 2021, Arizona adopted the nation’s first universal education-savings-account (ESA) program. In 2022,…
June 18, 2024
Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility
…since in early 2009, it wasn’t clear that the nation had escaped the financial crisis that had begun just months earlier. The unemployment rate back then was at about 8%…
June 10, 2024
The Economic World We’ve Lost
…immigrants. In Ronald Reagan’s final speech as president, he explained that: “We lead the world because, unique among nations, we draw our people – our strength – from every country…