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February 21, 2025
Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 2025
…American dream offers. Read the full report here. David Leonhardt, Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream. (Random House, 2023): xii. Rachel Wolfe, “The American Dream Feels…
February 20, 2025
The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated
…Oren Cass claim that workers have endured “decades of stagnant wages.” Progressives typically agree, as when New York Times journalist David Leonhardt asserted in his recent book that, “For almost half a century now, incomes and…
October 9, 2024
Learning the Right Lessons from the “China Shock”
https://twitter.com/MichaelRStrain/status/1844047782505808245 An influential 2013 paper by economists David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson finds an average reduction in manufacturing employment of 90,000 jobs per year from 1990 to 2007 because of…
September 17, 2024
The Future of Work
…Leah Libresco Sargeant, and David McGarry will sit down to delve into the evolving work ethic (or lack thereof) and the economic implications of modern labor trends. From the rise…
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
Sometimes it seems like Americans can’t decide whether we work too much or too little. We hear that because of rising inequality and a lack of good jobs, workers must…
September 5, 2024
Hurt Pennsylvania’s Workers to Win Pennsylvania’s Votes?
…jobs in industries that use steel intensively. U.S. Steel seems to agree. From the Post‘s article: U.S. Steel CEO David Burritt warned that the deal’s collapse would put at risk “thousands of…
June 20, 2024
The War on Poverty at 60: Lessons to Inform the Future
…panel examined poverty measurement. Panelists agreed that the official poverty measure is outdated and should no longer be used by government agencies. David Johnson from the National Academies of Sciences,…
June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
…education. In the early 1900s, progressives sought to bureaucratize K-12 into what historian David Tyack termed “the one best system.” In the 1920s, Oregon progressives (along with the anti-Catholic Ku…
April 26, 2024
Human Capital Spillovers and Health: Does Living Around College Graduates Lengthen Life?
Abstract Equally educated people are healthier if they live in more educated places. Every 10 percent point increase in an area’s share of adults with a college degree is associated…
March 14, 2024
On the Front Porch with Brent Orrell and Tony Pipa: A Conversation with Carol Graham
…through investing in public services and the arts. Following this discussion, the event ended with a Q&A. —David Veldran Event Materials Carol Graham: The Power of Hope: How the Science of…