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March 20, 2025

Homesteading 2.0: A Proposal to Make Housing Affordable Again

Across the Western US, rising home prices are slowing economic growth and stripping first-time homebuyers and middle-class families of homeownership opportunities. Commonsense, market-driven solutions to expand the housing supply are…

March 19, 2025

What Can We Learn from Louisiana’s Progress in K–12 Education?

…p.m. Adjournment Related Content Low-Performing Students Fall Farther Behind the Pack Mark Schneider | Education Next | February 6, 2025 Louisiana’s Clarion Call: “Let Teachers Teach” Robert Pondiscio | AEIdeas | August 12, 2024…

March 19, 2025

AI and Jobs: Measuring Impact and Building New Assessment Tools

…University of Michigan, on how AI is shaping the labor market and workforce development policy. The conversation was moderated by Axios reporter Ashley Gold. The discussion centered on Anthropic’s latest…

March 18, 2025

Low-Rise Multifamily and Housing Supply: A Case Study of Seattle

market-rate housing that promotes affordability. The key is to allow market forces to use by-right zoning to drive small-scale development, when also supported by clear and simplified regulatory frameworks. We…

March 17, 2025

How State Policymakers Can Save the Nuclear Family

…hotter job markets and lower taxes, all of which appeal to young and middle-aged men and women aiming to start or grow their families.  Culturally, red states are more likely…

March 17, 2025

Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood

…the rules. But the data paint a different picture; and it’s getting much harder to ignore. In his landmark 2022 book “Of Boys and Men,” Richard Reeves chronicled the falling…

March 17, 2025

Trump Should Put an End to Rent Control

…most notably, New York City, where the prices of 960,00 apartments, nearly a third of all housing, is price-regulated. HUD has a special interest in the market distortions, inadequate maintenance,…

March 13, 2025

Housing Roadblocks: Paving a New Way to Address Affordability

…who has spent much of the last quarter-century studying what has gone wrong with America’s housing markets. Initially, I worried mainly about the high costs and limited housing supply in…

March 12, 2025

Why Alabama Needs The Success Sequence

…have markedly higher odds of realizing the American Dream: get at least a high school education  work full time  marry before having children A stunning 97% of young adults who…

March 11, 2025

The American Dream in Ohio depends on stronger Buckeye families

…two-parent families in a community. In other words, poor children have a markedly higher chance of achieving the American dream if they grow up in places with a higher share…