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May 14, 2025
Libraries Are Doing the Work—Let’s Fund Them Accordingly
…matter. So does the intergenerational initiative I encountered at Kansas City Public Library. In 2023, they launched a gathering designed to foster connection across generations. College students helped develop the…
May 14, 2025
Graduation in the Time of COVID: The Weakened Relationship with Chronic Absenteeism
…and graduation rates weakened by half during the pandemic. That is, a district’s chronic absenteeism rate seems to matter less to its graduation rate than it did before the pandemic,…
May 6, 2025
What DOGE Flagged as Unemployment Fraud Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg—Most of Which Will Never Be Recovered
The Department of Government Efficiency recently spotlighted unemployment benefits paid to tens of thousands of individuals whose reported birthdates indicated they were either children or dead. One claimant’s birthdate even suggested he or she hadn’t been born yet. As Elon Musk said, “Your tax dollars…
May 1, 2025
Tariffs Plus AI Makes for a Rocky Job Market. How Should Workers Prepare?
…stark: in today’s labor market, few occupations remain safe from AI-driven disruption. As Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman bluntly puts it, “It does not matter if you are a programmer, designer, product…
April 25, 2025
Trump Administration Announces Plan to Get Borrowers Paying Student Loans Again
…matter of if, but when. The current student loan mess The federal government suspended student loan payments in March 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic; this meant that payments…
April 24, 2025
Musk’s High-Tech Polygamy Is a Dead End
…there’s no humanity, and all the policies in the world don’t matter.” In this way, he spotlighted his commitment to the pronatalist cause—the idea that society must do more to…
April 24, 2025
In Opposing Last Month’s Continuing Resolution, Nearly All Democrats Voted to Shut Down Welfare Checks, Too
The Continuing Resolution (CR) Congress approved and President Donald Trump signed in March reflected a reversal of recent partisan roles on legislation preventing a government shutdown. That is, contrary to recent type,…
April 23, 2025
In Case of Emergency, Open Block Grant: Part 2
Congress’s efforts to produce “one big, beautiful bill” that reflects President Donald Trump’s tax and spending priorities is about to kick into high gear as the House and Senate turn…
April 23, 2025
In Case of Emergency, Open Block Grant: Part 1
…strides in increasing work and earnings and reducing poverty, as one of us (Weidinger) noted on the 25th anniversary of the 1996 law: After reform, welfare caseloads plummeted as millions…
April 9, 2025
Measuring and Building Human Leadership in an AI World
…toward dynamic, performance-based assessments that reflect how people lead in real time. Training programs could be better targeted, focusing on developing the communication habits and social reasoning that matter most….