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July 2, 2025
Have You Heard the Good News?
A quick look at some recent headlines shows that we have problems. The nation sharply and angrily divided along political lines. Rioters in the streets of Los Angeles. A destructive…
July 2, 2025
Holding Colleges Accountable: From Graduation to Gainful Employment
…and national engagement at the American Council on Education. This week, the Senate passed the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which contained several provisions regarding college accountability, student loans, and…
July 1, 2025
More Information Sharing Means Fewer Taxpayer Losses to Fraud
…of unclassified information.” Democrats may object to that agenda. They may lament public officials or contractors who facilitate it. And naturally there are many complexities to navigate along the way, including protecting Americans’ privacy. But…
June 30, 2025
America’s Six Million Home Shortage: Why California Is at the Epicenter
…analysis distributed the estimated six million missing homes across counties based on each area’s median price-to-income ratio—a proven proxy for housing affordability. By applying this method, the analysis produced a national shortage…
June 25, 2025
De-Skilling the Knowledge Economy
…regarding the challenge of projecting AI impacts. First, the data mostly provide a national-level scope. Labor market information is like weather reports: National weather maps are good for learning what’s…
June 25, 2025
Yes, there’s still a shared American story. If we’re to live in freedom, we need to embrace and defend it.
A year and a half ago, I wrote an essay in The Social Breakdown arguing the need for a revived civic national story and the existential consequences for the country…
June 24, 2025
Public Housing and Rental Subsidies
…National Multifamily Housing Council, June 8, 2022. 34. Paul Emrath and Caitlin Sugrue Walter, “Regulation: 40.6 Percent of the Cost of Multifamily Development,” National Association of Home Builders and National…
June 23, 2025
Boston’s Backward Housing Policy: More Demand Will Only Exacerbate the Supply Crisis
…homes annually, at a median price of around $735,000—roughly 30% below Boston’s new single-family home construction prices. Importantly, such a strategy would also promote filtering—the natural process by which newer,…
June 20, 2025
What Kids Need—and Adults Need to Know—to Combat the Youth Mental Health Crisis
…media. As Zach Goldberg of Florida State’s Institute for Governance and Civics shows by mining data from the Monitoring the Future national datasets, girls are more likely to exhibit traits like neuroticism,…
June 20, 2025
Senate Embraces “Do No Harm” for Higher Education
…certificates: No standard. For institutions where over half of students are out-of-state, earnings benchmarks are calculated based on the national population of comparable high school graduates or bachelor’s degree holders,…