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October 30, 2024
A SNAP Reform Framework Focused on the Future
…and caseloads, SNAP still struggles to connect low-income households to employment and improve health and nutrition, all while suffering from many administrative issues. Over the past year, Les Ford and…
October 30, 2024
The Geography of Fertility — Where are the Babies?
Blue states are better for families — at least that’s what many academics and journalists contend. In their book “Red Families v. Blue Families: Legal Polarization and the Creation of…
October 30, 2024
A Reform Framework for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Key Points The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) needs reform to remain an effective safety-net program that decreases food insecurity and supports self-reliance through employment and good health. SNAP policy…
October 23, 2024
The College Enrollment Plunge Is the Biden Administration’s Disaster
…A researcher at the Clearinghouse suggested that this might be due to some students being unable to afford more expensive four-year colleges due to the financial aid debacle, and opting for cheaper…
October 9, 2024
How to Make Millionaire Teachers
…students lacking access to college-level or STEM coursework would suddenly have access to the best teachers in the nation. Students from families who could not otherwise afford SAT or ACT…
October 9, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Main Priority Is Expanding Welfare, Not Strengthening the Middle Class
…it’s fair to ask exactly how middle-class Harris’s childhood was, given that her mother was a prominent biomedical scientist and her father was a tenured professor of economics at Stanford.…
October 8, 2024
Unplanned Obsolescence
…comfortable working around and with it. As the saying goes, in the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king. Further, as Stanford University labor economist Erik Brynjolfsson has…
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 27, 2024
Food Insecurity Increases Driven by Middle- and High-Income Households
…respondents if they have ever had to skip meals for an entire day because they couldn’t afford food, other questions ask whether the household is able to afford a balanced…
September 11, 2024
Doing Right by Kids: A Book Event
…incentives and how federal policy can encourage work and upward mobility. The final panel tackled education policy from early childhood through higher education. The Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Chester E….