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June 16, 2025
Better Boys: The Difference Good Dads Make
…the odds they end up in the principal’s office. They also suggest that policymakers — including leaders such as Govs. Glenn Youngkin and Wes Moore in states such as Virginia and Maryland who have…
June 4, 2025
Congress Is Subsidizing the Wrong Neighborhoods
…poor communities. The House bill nods to this idea by enhancing incentives for investment in rural areas. But lawmakers shouldn’t favor rural areas over urban ones. Third, Congress should steer…
May 7, 2025
Republicans Unveil Plan to Rein in Student Debt and Waste in Higher Education
In a significant development for higher education policy, House Republicans have unveiled a sweeping proposal to reform student loans and financial aid through the federal budget reconciliation process. This effort, which complements…
May 5, 2025
What’s in House Republicans’ Student Loan Overhaul
…where lawmakers have proposed their own set of student loan reforms that differ on some points. However, the policies in the House package stand a better chance of becoming law than any…
April 24, 2025
It’s About Time: Bring Back Those Student Loan Collections
This week, the Department of Education announced that on May 5 it will begin collecting on defaulted student loans. This will be the first time since March 2020 that borrowers who have…
April 15, 2025
Utah Hands Parents the Keys to the App Store
…trusted turned out to be little more than window dressing. Stories like this are heartbreaking, and all too common. As parents and policymakers, we can’t stand by while a digital…
April 3, 2025
The dangerous myth that poverty is the cause of child abuse
…them from engaging in services, while also diminishing their ability to protect and care for their children. Oversimplifying the causes of child maltreatment will only lead policymakers to offer ineffective…
April 1, 2025
Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani’s Dangerous Radicalism on Child Welfare
…But as mayor, Mamdani would be ideally placed to put these ideas into practice, just as “progressive” prosecutors use their offices to enact policies that lawmakers reject. It’s hard to…
March 27, 2025
The Looming Debt Crisis, the Trump Tax Cuts, and Medicaid
…not CBO’s 154 percent. Given this unprecedented situation, you might expect federal policymakers to prioritize deficit reduction this year. But the recently passed House budget resolution would add around $3 trillion to the…
March 21, 2025
Increasing Financial Aid Isn’t the Solution to High College Costs
…federal Pell Grant, which advocates claim has lost its “purchasing power” over time. This narrative is misleading. In fact, policymakers have made financial aid programs such as Pell Grants far…