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Op-ed
New York Families Are Doing Better Than You’ve Heard
Is the middle class in danger? On social media and in the news, Americans regularly hear that the middle class has shrunk, been hollowed out, or is disappearing. These claims…
Op-Ed
There Are Many Reasons to Cheer Up About the State of the Middle Class
…Brendan Dougherty wrote that he doesn’t think he’s “ever been so depressed” as when he read my recent report with Steve Rose, “The Middle Class is Shrinking Because of a Booming Upper-Middle Class.” It…
Op-Ed
Progress on Absenteeism Is Stalling. What Can We Do About It?
…and dangerous, phase. Fortunately, there are some bright spots. Last year, Iowa cut chronic absenteeism by 6 percentage points, and Delaware, Nevada, and Kentucky had the next largest declines, each…
Blog Post
AI Has Come for K–12 Education
…AI Education Project will argue for the motion “Maximizing School Improvement by 2035 Means Integrating AI into Classrooms Today” while Amplify’s Dan Meyer and Jake Tawney of Great Hearts Academies…
Op-Ed
The Link Between Maternal Drug Use and Rising Infant Mortality
…1,000 live births from 8.9 per 1,000 in 2023. “Every single infant loss represents a family devastated, a community impacted and a future cut short,” State Health Officer Dan Edney…
Op-Ed
The Golden Age of Public Housing—and Why It Didn’t Last
If Americans have any shared image of public housing, it is one of dilapidated and even dangerous “projects” and locations of concentrated poverty. But there was a time—a brief shining…
Op-Ed
A Second Reconciliation Bill Should Focus On Reducing Deficits
…for OBBB savings policies that haven’t even taken effect yet. But those dynamics mask a dangerous and unsustainable budgetary status quo. Interest on the current debt already exceeds all spending…
Op-Ed
The Coming Acceleration
…us steam engines—it produced child labor, dangerous urban factories, decades of worker agitation, and, out of that unrest, contributed to the rise of dangerous new ideologies like communism and fascism….
Article
The Shifting Composition Of SNAP Households
…as Brad Wilcox and his coauthors caution, the picture is not uniformly positive. Overall, marriage rates continue to decline, suggesting that while marriage as the preferred institution for raising children…
Op-Ed
The New Era for Nonprofits: America’s Old System of Federally Funded Nonprofits is Gone. What Comes Next?
…its inherent risks. Liberals like Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Independent Sector President Brian O’Connell warned that nonprofits’ growing reliance on government funding threatened their ability to serve as…
Op-Ed
Are conservative women embracing the ‘Supermom’ ideal?
…Brad Wilcox is director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, senior fellow of the Institute for Family Studies and a Deseret News contributor. Ken Burchfiel is…