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December 2, 2024
The Pursuit of Happiness Starts with Families: A Conversation Between Brad Wilcox and Gov. Spencer Cox
…the nation in GDP growth, led the nation in population growth in the last census, and I could go on and on. People are trying to figure out why —…
December 2, 2024
Why Has Construction Productivity Stagnated? The Role of Land-Use Regulation
…size. The model is consistent with an extensive series of key facts about the nature of the construction sector. The post-1970 productivity decline coincides with increases in our best proxies…
November 25, 2024
Don’t Write Off Workforce Pell Grants
…that all federally-funded programs, short-term or not, meet adequate performance benchmarks or lose access to their taxpayer subsidies. The nature of innovation is that some new ideas will work, and…
November 22, 2024
A Side Effect of the Booming Job Market: Wage Inequality Is Way Down
…a fundamental shift in the nature of job-switching as workers moved from lower-productivity firms to higher ones. This reallocation of workers to more productive firms and tasks, along with technological…
November 21, 2024
A Local Option for Natural Gas Fracking
…the Marcellus Shale formation, which feeds natural gas extraction in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Many of these counties are economically distressed and have lost population. The time has come to give…
November 21, 2024
Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Work
Summary Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) promise to improve productivity significantly, but there are many questions about how AI could affect jobs and workers. Recent technical innovations have driven the…
November 21, 2024
A Consensus on Common-Sense Education Reform
Is common ground possible in an age of extreme polarization? Perhaps! “Toward a Potential Grand Bargain for the Nation” is a new report by a group of experts from think…
November 20, 2024
End Federal Loans for Graduate School
…similar metrics. Reformers should consider creating protections for private student lenders to employ such underwriting practices, which would encourage the market to grow. With the national debt standing at nearly…
November 19, 2024
A Trump Boom?
…a big opportunity to overhaul this system. Rather than taxing corporate income, they could implement a national consumption tax and a tax on business cash flows. With full expensing for…
November 19, 2024
We Aren’t Testing Students on the Computer Skills They Actually Need
…37 points. This sharp drop is likely linked to learning loss during the COVID pandemic. Indeed, other large-scale assessments, like PISA and the US government’s National Assessment of Educational Progress….