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Rings to Roofs, Part I: One Million Homes Through Marriage
…these solutions revolve around ending the ban on starter homes—making it legal to build naturally affordable homes that young and working families can afford to buy and rent. Legalizing starter homes is…
Article
The American Dream Lives in Suburbia
…loneliness.” Yes, commuting from the suburbs can be horrible, but this charge against suburbia is also overstated. For one thing, suburbanites are much more able to afford a car (parking…
Blog
Rethinking Predatory Student Lending
…and should, have known they wouldn’t be able to afford to repay. But that occurrence doesn’t mean that government lending is automatically safer. Extending credit without considering affordability is harmful…
Op-Ed
The Ever-Changing Definition of Adulthood and Its Cost
…doesn’t really provide them? The estrangement crisis is largely confined to America’s “haves.” (They are people who can afford therapy in the first place.) These are the young adults most…
Op-Ed
The Hidden Factor in Student Success: Family Structure
Every summer, New Yorkers ask why so many Asian students and so few black students are admitted to the city’s elite public high schools. Only three of the 777 students…
Report
Family Structure, a Key Factor Hidden in Plain Sight: The Case for Federal Reporting in Education
Key Points • The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) collects family structure data but fails to report them. • Family structure is an important factor in student success. In…
Article
There’s a Lot of Talk About “Career Readiness.” Have We Thought It Through?
…collective memory. To help surface some of those hard-earned lessons, I turned to Stefanie Sanford, the president of Alithi Consulting and a veteran of this century’s pivotal K-12 debates. As…
Op-Ed
Microfinance Failures
…Development; the governments of Norway, Sweden, and the Netherlands; the U.S. Agency for International Development; and the Ford Foundation. Those institutions did not insist upon repayment in the manner of for-profit…
Op-ed
New York Families Are Doing Better Than You’ve Heard
…afford. Again, though, this is where concerns about inequality trends might be relevant. Conventional inflation adjustment accounts for the general increase in prices. To affect the affordability of “needs,” inequality…
Op-Ed
When Washington Picks Up the States’ Tab, Waste and Fraud Follow
…benefits that have previously been funded entirely by federal dollars. As Les Ford of the Alliance for Opportunity notes, only eight states have error rates low enough to continue qualifying for…
Blog Post
Education Scorecard Looks Beyond Recovery
This week, the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University and the Educational Opportunity Project (EOP) at Stanford University released the Education Scorecard, which uses data from the National…
Working Paper
The Value of Reliable Statistics
Abstract On August 1, 2025, President Trump fired the head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and claimed that the agency’s data were “rigged.” In the aftermath, measures…