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What Harvard’s Raj Chetty Overlooks About Upward Mobility
…York Times’s Nicholas Kristof gushing that the study highlights the means for “how to keep the American Dream Alive.” At the same time, however, Chetty, by focusing on select data, as revealing as…
Op-Ed
Out of Work and On the Dole — Is Uncle Sam Contributing to Young Men’s Malaise?
American men are in trouble. From Richard Reeves’ “Of Boys and Men” to Nicholas Eberstadt’s “Men Without Work,” we have learned that men are opting out of our most important institutions…
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Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood
…the anthropologist Nicholas Townsend has observed that, for most men, “marriage, work, and fatherhood” go together as a “package deal.” When Reeves wrote “Of Boys and Men” in 2022 as a center-left…
Article
The Pursuit of Happiness Starts with Families: A Conversation Between Brad Wilcox and Gov. Spencer Cox
…strength with my colleague, Nicholas Zill, and we’re finding that Utah is No. 1 when it comes to family strength in America. There’s no state, for instance, that has more…
Op-Ed
The Rotting of the College Board
…writer Nicholas Lemann, of its “national aspirations and of the University of California’s high status in public higher education.” But it would take another two decades for the University of…
Op-Ed
Don’t Believe the Doomsayers. The American Dream Is Still In Reach for Young People
…birth rates and marriage rates. Moreover, a growing mass of able-bodied young men, and some young women, are simply opting out of the labor force, as my American Enterprise Institute colleague Nicholas Eberstadt has…
Article
The Blue State Family Exodus: Families Are Migrating to Red and Purple States
…seemingly gone out of its way to undermine families and children,” argued the New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, pointing to the Republican Party’s opposition to a host of policies he believes would help families….
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The American heart is closing to marriage and family. Can red states change that?
…decline of 6% over the same time frame. Efforts such as these are important because research carried out with my colleague Nicholas Zill indicates that “Florida counties that enjoy strong and stable…
Op-Ed
Why Foster Kids Aren’t Getting the Mental Health Care They need
…light on what is happening. According to the report, “Families Matter to Kids’ Mental Health” by Nicholas Zill, there are about 8 million children in the U.S. who need psychiatric…
Op-Ed
As NYC Reels from Fentanyl Day Care Tragedy, Child Care Overdoses Are More Common Than We Think
“He had so much love,” Zoila Dominici said of her 1-year-old son Nicholas who died last week from fentanyl exposure after his home-based day care in The Bronx, Divino Nino, was found to…
Article
Do Two Parents Matter More Than Ever?
…recent analysis by Nicholas Zill and Brad Wilcox found that “rates of school contact for student misbehavior are nearly twice as high among students living with separated or divorced parents…
Op-Ed
Time to Do Something About the NILFs
…with “deaths of despair,” incarceration, and single parenthood. As Nicholas Eberstadt has documented, men who are “not in the labor force” (NILF) are alarmingly disengaged from others and overly self-focused. According to federal time-use surveys, NILFs do very…