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Are Big Families the Solution to Declining Fertility?
“Big families are like waterbed stores,” comedian and father of five Jim Gaffigan jokes. “They used to be everywhere, and now they’re just weird.” But he might have to update his…
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Child Abuse and Neglect Are Intergenerational Problems. Policies to Protect Children Should Reflect That
…Black people have “trauma imprinted on their DNA” because of “slavery and Jim Crow.” (The two could not point me to the specific place on the genetic code of African-Americans,…
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How Misreading Somali Poverty Led Minnesota into Its Largest Welfare Scandal
…with Jim Crow and its legacy. Neighborhood-level poverty data tells the story. In the North Minneapolis Hawthorne neighborhood, among the city’s poorest, 38% of residents are Black, and 21% are…
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Where Are the Pro-Family Senators?
…(R-MO) and Mike Lee (R-UT) — to advance pro-family measures. This means we need senators like freshmen Sens. John Curtis (R-UT), Bernie Moreno (R-OH) and Jim Banks (R-IN) to pick…
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The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated
…David Grusky, Maximilian Hell, Robert Manduca, Jimmy Narang, “The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940.” Replication files available at https://opportunityinsights.org/data/?geographic_level=0&topic=0&paper_id=546#resource-listing. These results were the basis for…
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The Rotting of the College Board
…in school, no one could show up to a testing site, and the whole project was basically an extension of Jim Crow—so why bother? Colleges across the country went test-optional….
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Another Terrible Idea: Abolishing Child Welfare
…those family members may be suffering from severe substance abuse or mental illness. And again, she argues that, even if they were, it is the fault of slavery, Jim Crow,…
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How Public Housing Fueled Boston’s Busing Riots
…ribbon on all-white Techwood Homes in Atlanta, reinforcing rather than challenging the city’s Jim Crow laws. Black neighborhoods across the U.S. were disproportionately cleared as “slums” and replaced by public…
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Is Systemic Racism Responsible for the Increase in Child Mortality Rates?
…is the evidence for this? Surely the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow are still felt decades after they have ended, but the further we get away from these legal…
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I’m a Conservative But Defunding NPR Is a Mistake. What Should Happen Instead Might Be Surprising
…and college towns. The ensuing tempest has led, once again, to a move to defund the organization. Rep. Jim Banks, a Republican from Indiana, has said he’ll introduce such a bill,…
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The Fearless Fund, DEI, and Attacks on Philanthropic Freedom
…targeting Black people fall in the same category? What about Julius Rosenwald’s famous support for schools for rural Southern Black children during Jim Crow? Or a foundation that limited its…
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The Past and Future of Education Reform
…at Risk. How We Got Here During 1980 election, Ronald Reagan called for eliminating the new U.S. Department of Education (which Congress had created a year earlier, fulfilling Jimmy Carter’s…