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November 15, 2024
Calibration: Making AI a Partner at Work
…ones who will gain the most from supportive AI tools at work. In 2023, Stanford University economist Erik Brynjolfsson published a study showing the use of AI chatbots for call center workers…
November 15, 2024
JD Vance is Right: Reduce the Power of Big Foundations to Help Charity
In his 2021 campaign for Senate, JD Vance, now vice-president-elect, minced no words in expressing his disdain for two of America’s largest private, philanthropic institutions: the Ford Foundation and the Gates Foundations. …
November 14, 2024
Florida, the Forgotten Education-Reform Star
…As Fordham’s Mike Petrilli pointed out a few years ago, “from the late 1990s until 2017, the reading performance of Black fourth-graders in Florida skyrocketed 26 points—equivalent to more than two grade…
November 13, 2024
How Trump Might Fulfill His Higher-Education Campaign Promises
…at least 52 seats in the U.S. Senate and will probably control the House of Representatives. The results should afford President-elect Trump plenty of opportunity to enact his agenda—which includes several key…
November 10, 2024
The Risks of Nonprofit Local Journalism
…known as Press Forward, started in September, 2023 with $500 million from a core group of identifiably left-of-center foundations: MacArthur, Ford, Knight, and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. It expresses support,…
November 8, 2024
It’s Time for Conservatives to Reclaim Our Place in Ed Reform
…and school choice. But the left-leaning sector’s political priors made working with the Administration virtually out of the question for ed reform’s progressives, revealing them to be what Derrell Bradford,…
November 5, 2024
Never Let a Crisis End
…housing crisis. That’s because the new affordable housing—like rent-regulated apartments and public housing—encourages its tenants never to move out, even if their incomes go up and they could afford to…
October 31, 2024
The Republican Marriage Advantage: Partisanship, Marriage, And Family Stability In The Trump Era
The Donald Trump era has scrambled the relationship between partisanship and many of the most important social axes of American life—class, gender, region, and now even race and ethnicity. Since…
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…