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May 10, 2025
How Single Room Occupancies Could Be the Answer to NYC’s Housing Crisis
…“The Housing Maintenance Code does not allow housing with shared facilities as-of-right.” As attorney Patrick Sullivan, who follows housing law for the law firm Kramer, Levin, Natalie’s and Frankel, explains:…
May 1, 2025
Tariffs Plus AI Makes for a Rocky Job Market. How Should Workers Prepare?
…and strengthen their skill sets. Like swimmers caught in a sudden riptide, the trick is to not panic but to work with the current until you find a way out….
April 4, 2025
How One State Improved Its NAEP Scores
…to Cade Brumley, Louisiana’s state superintendent of education since 2020. Here’s what he had to say: — Rick Rick: Cade, while the nation’s NAEP results were lousy, Louisiana came out looking…
March 28, 2025
Unfreezing New York’s Projects
The imposing brick blocks covering much of the territory from West 16th to 27th Streets, between Ninth and Tenth Avenues in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood, superficially have much in common with…
December 17, 2024
Industrial Policy and Deficits: Dark Clouds for Democratic Capitalism
…in a political chess match between the two political parties. Instead, the lack of concern both parties have shown for fiscal consolidation is a sign that the political system is…
November 13, 2024
How Trump Might Fulfill His Higher-Education Campaign Promises
…including bachelor’s degrees. There are many problems with having the federal government literally set up and operate a new university. My colleague Rick Hess has argued that “the idea of putting federal…
October 11, 2024
Let’s Open the Black Box of Selective College Admissions
The aftermath of the 2023 Supreme Court ruling in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard (SFFA) has put a spotlight on the capriciousness of admissions practices at selective colleges. In SFFA, the Supreme…
October 9, 2024
Two Cheers for California’s Ban on Legacy Admissions
…Policy Institute’s Rick Kahlenberg and I observed last year, it’s a classic case of interest group politics. “An ardent minority of college officials and alumni groups love them,” we wrote, “the former…
September 20, 2024
How Public Housing Fueled Boston’s Busing Riots
…End,” leveled for the projects, show low-rise, four-family brick-and-stucco worker housing that could have been renovated, not demolished—and would likely have been valuable today. One can well imagine small private landlords in…
June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
…worthy of this great nation. That’s where a unified theory just might help. Frederick M. Hess is the director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Michael Q….