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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 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,…
June 18, 2025
The (Non) Effect of Tariffs on Manufacturing Employment
…immigrants and to negotiate better trade deals. He has also argued that tariffs will advance US national security and economic resilience, and be a source of revenue for the federal…
June 16, 2025
Better Boys: The Difference Good Dads Make
…nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Linda Malone-Colon, dean of Hampton University’s School of Liberal Arts and Education, is executive director of the National Center for Black Family…
June 16, 2025
The ‘Father Divide’ and What it Means for Our Kids
…The Importance of Fatherhood in Virginia” was released this week from a diverse group of researchers, including scholars from the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, the National…
June 13, 2025
Good Fathers, Flourishing Kids: The Importance of Fatherhood in Virginia
…National Center for Black Family Life at Hampton University, the Institute for Family Studies, and the National Marriage Project. Read the full report here. UVA – Good Fathers, Flourishing Kids ReportDownload…
June 12, 2025
Lingering Absence in Public Schools: Tracking Post-Pandemic Chronic Absenteeism into 2024
Key Points Chronic absenteeism spiked during the pandemic and remains a serious problem. In 2024, rates were 57 percent higher than they were pre-pandemic and only 2 percentage points lower…