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January 12, 2026
The “Upward Mobility Act” Seeks to Overcome Benefit Cliffs
…Sen. John Husted (R-OH) and matching House legislation offered by Rep. Blake Moore (R-UT). Their “Upward Mobility Act” encourages states to test reforms addressing benefit cliffs and other impediments to recipients’ working…
November 26, 2025
How Not to Redefine Poverty
…different approaches. In no small measure, the choice of $3,000 and $1,500 thresholds seems to have reflected a desire on the part of President Lyndon Johnson to deem one-fifth of…
October 15, 2025
Don’t Choose Your Own Adventure: Understanding Middle-Class Earnings Trends
What should we make of earnings trends in the United States? People can differ in their opinions about whether some reported trend is impressive or cause for concern, of course….
October 3, 2025
The Link Between Maternal Drug Use and Rising Infant Mortality
…too: Johns Hopkins researchers found that between 2021 and 2022, infant deaths in Texas rose from 1,985 to 2,240, a 12.9 percent increase. The data, in fact, suggest a national rather than…
September 23, 2025
A Second Reconciliation Bill Should Focus On Reducing Deficits
…possible. Second, for specifics, they should start with targeted policies House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) says were “left on the cutting room floor” in the OBBB. For example, just as…
September 8, 2025
A Hidden Explanation for the Wealth Gap on Racial Lines That Emerges in the Push to Promote Public Housing
…Weldon Johnson, and Langston Hughes, historically black neighborhoods labeled as slums were taken by eminent domain and cleared. This was the case, for instance, with the Hill neighborhood at Pittsburgh,…
August 4, 2025
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…
July 30, 2025
Is Marriage Back? Divorce Is Down, Family Stability Is Up
…and a more diverse family future. In 1994, the family psychologist John Gottman wrote there is “no denying that this is a frightening time for couples” with “more than half of all first…
July 24, 2025
Divorce In Decline: About 40% Of Today’s Marriages Will End In Divorce
…today’s first marriages will end in divorce. But only time will tell. Grant Bailey is Research Associate at the Institute for Family Studies. Lyman Stone is Senior Fellow and Director of the Pronatalism…
June 25, 2025
De-Skilling the Knowledge Economy
…automation since the dawn of the industrial age.22 These positive effects, however, have a long time horizon and will accumulate gradually. Or, as John Maynard Keynes observed, “In the long…