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December 5, 2024

More High-Skill Immigration Is Popular. Let’s Act on That

…to the idea, suggesting green cards for foreign graduates, a recent Politico piece highlights the obvious tension with immigration restrictionists on Team Trump, such as adviser Stephen Miller. Reporter Brendan

December 2, 2024

The Pursuit of Happiness Starts with Families: A Conversation Between Brad Wilcox and Gov. Spencer Cox

Utah has been at the forefront of a national conversation about how to grow and strengthen families, thanks in part to the leadership of Gov. Spencer Cox. I recently invited…

November 1, 2024

Latest Student Loan Cancellation Proposal Could Be Biggest Yet

…unrealistic assumptions (for instance, by assuming borrowers will apply at implausibly low rates). The danger of an underestimate is even greater here. Subjective decisions will govern the scale of cancellation,…

October 30, 2024

The Geography of Fertility — Where are the Babies?

…to Americans interested in starting, growing or raising a family. Brad Wilcox (@BradWilcoxIFS on X) is the Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and a nonresident…

October 25, 2024

How Workforce Education Can Boost Earnings and Fill Jobs

…limiting certain wealthy universities’ access to federal student loans, which are currently a loss-maker for the government. There is a danger, of course, that introducing federal funding might also introduce…

October 9, 2024

Learning the Right Lessons from the “China Shock”

…U.S. competition with imports from China. Those economists published another important paper, along with economists Daron Acemoglu and Brendan Price, that found import growth from China led to 200,000 fewer jobs per…

October 1, 2024

For the Sake of the Kids: Strengthening Families in the Lone Star State

The family is the fundamental unit of society. As Pope Saint John Paul II so eloquently stated, “as the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole…

September 25, 2024

Disconnected: The Growing Class Divide in American Civic Life

Key Points College graduates report having greater access to community spaces than do Americans with a high school degree or less. More than one in five Americans have no access…

September 25, 2024

The Promise — and Danger — of Kamala Harris’s YIMBYism

Vice President Kamala Harris is not wrong to emphasize that the best solution to our housing shortage is the construction of new homes. She’s actually enunciated something close to a program to do so: tax…

September 17, 2024

The Blue State Family Exodus: Families Are Migrating to Red and Purple States

…Brad Wilcox, Future of Freedom Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, is the author of Get Married: Why…