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February 11, 2025

AI and the Future of Work Looks Bright

…to provide a clearer picture of evolving employment and skill demands. As the recent National Academies report on AI and work pointed out, this enhanced data, when combined with powerful new AI…

February 10, 2025

For Better: Four Proven Ways To A Strong And Stable Marriage

nationally. His research found an astounding 30-percentage-point happiness gap between married and unmarried Americans. Although the research on the benefits of marriage is robust, it is also clear that the…

February 7, 2025

Follow Elon Musk’s USAID Model to Free Tenants from Public-Housing Hell

…manage. The first and best reason for exiting public housing is the condition of the projects themselves — and the ill effects on the supposed beneficiaries, the tenants.  The nation’s…

February 7, 2025

Low-Performing Students Fall Farther Behind the Pack

On January 29, the National Assessment of Education Progress, NAEP, released results from its 2024 assessment. This latest installment of the self-styled “Nation’s Report Card” makes depressing reading. Indeed, if…

February 6, 2025

The Trump Administration is Already Proving to be Family Friendly

…families and family-specific difficulties, such as the accessibility of transportation to families with young children, and give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average,”…

February 4, 2025

Snip, Snip: Spending Cuts Are Coming 

…foreseeable future. Just the interest on the debt totals almost $1 trillion per year, exceeding the cost of national defense. For Republicans, the underlying problem is simple: As Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described in his…

February 3, 2025

Legislators Want to Give Tens of Millions of Free Lunches to Students Who Don’t Need Them

…important to understand what policies exist to help low-income families with children afford food. Wisconsin schools already provide free or reduced-price school meals to children with low incomes through the National…

January 30, 2025

American Greatness Depends on Strong Families

…moms and dads to afford to have kids,” recognizing national success not in terms of GDP but in “whether people feel that they can raise thriving and healthy families in…

January 30, 2025

Eliminating the Benefit Cliff and Achieving Savings for Taxpayers: A Reform Proposal for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

Key Points The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) is one of the nation’s largest safety-net programs for low-income households in the US, distributing over $94 billion in food benefits in…

January 24, 2025

Testing Theories of Why: Four Keys to Interpreting US Student Achievement Trends

…of the children we care for, or the future of the economy we depend on, national test scores are valuable indicators. However, although national test scores do provide strong evidence…