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October 7, 2024
Has Kamala Harris Given Up on “College for All”?
In 2009, then-President Obama made a bold proposal: “By 2020, this nation will once again have the highest proportion of college graduates in the world.” His administration then pursued a slew of policies…
October 3, 2024
Six Ideas to Fix Higher Education in 2025
America will have a new president and a new Congress in 2025, and with that change comes the opportunity to rethink federal policy towards higher education. The federal approach suffers…
October 2, 2024
Higher Education: Making Education Beyond High School Work for All
Executive Summary and Introduction: The federal government treats higher education as a surefire investment, but this isn’t always true. Many colleges leave their students worse off financially, contributing to the…
September 16, 2024
A Pyrrhic Victory Against Student Loan Default
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has published a new report on federal student loan repayment, and the picture isn’t pretty. Six years after first entering repayment on their loans, over half of…
September 11, 2024
After Decades of Competitive Admissions, Getting into College Has Finally Become Easier
High school seniors fretting over whether they’ll receive a college acceptance letter can sleep a little easier. College admissions rates, which had been declining for decades, are now on the upswing….
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…using IPUMS microdata. (See Steven Ruggles, Sarah Flood, Matthew Sobek, Daniel Backman, Annie Chen, Grace Cooper, Stephanie Richards, Renae Rodgers, and Megan Schouweiler. IPUMS USA: Version 15.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN:…
June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
…can too readily unravel the informal ties among people that develop organically through private cooperation and community endeavors. None of this presumes malice or malfeasance; it’s just that government programs…
June 17, 2024
Child Support Policy: Areas of Emerging Agreement and Ongoing Debate
…for cost recovery; collected child support should always directly benefit children, not offset government costs. Finally, we outline areas of agreement and disagreement related to mandated cooperation with CSE. In…
June 10, 2024
The Economic World We’ve Lost
…more damage, especially if he were to pull the US out of NATO. More than just defense is at stake. International security alliances and global economic cooperation foster peace and…
May 29, 2024
Holding out Hope for a Left-Right Consensus on Federal Student Lending
…Earlier this month, the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity’s (FREOPP) Preston Cooper and Beth hosted a webinar to discuss a recent report the three of us co-authored on the potential for expanding the…