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November 14, 2024
The Rotting of the College Board
…rigged in favor of the well-to-do. In 2003, University of California President Richard Atkinson gave a public address discussing the trend among wealthier families to pay for test prep, suggesting…
October 23, 2024
The College Enrollment Plunge Is the Biden Administration’s Disaster
…the time, Richard Cordray, was a darling of progressive advocacy groups gunning for loan forgiveness—but he had no experience in financial aid administration. Now, the chickens have come home to roost. Hundreds…
October 3, 2024
The New “Old Girls Network” in the American Workplace
…to prosper in our service- and information-based economy, men without a college degree have faced declining job prospects and growing social and health risks. Richard Reeves, founder of the American Institute of Boys and Men…
September 30, 2024
Our Academic Productivity After the Council of Economic Advisers
Abstract Gordon Tullock wrote that government economists found capable of “firefighting” are assigned to do more of it, “with the result that the higher ranks of government economists aren’t able…
September 20, 2024
How Public Housing Fueled Boston’s Busing Riots
…housing. By contrast, as Richard Rothstein has pointed out in The Color of Law, federal housing policy favored white suburban homeownership via redlining and other discriminatory practices. In Boston, school officials…
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:…
July 26, 2024
Two Cheers for Shrinking Black-White Opportunity Gaps
The latest in a series of important reports on social mobility by the research group Opportunity Insights is out, and it’s another conversation-changer. Across a variety of outcomes in adulthood…
June 20, 2024
The War on Poverty at 60: Lessons to Inform the Future
…measure better reflects material circumstances than income does. AEI’s Richard Burkhauser discussed what a full income poverty measure would entail. The second panel focused on policies enacted during the Great…
June 18, 2024
Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility
…and white Americans. In research I carried out with American Institute for Boys and Men president Richard Reeves, we discovered that black children are much more likely than white children…
June 13, 2024
The Family-to-Prison-or-College Pipeline: Married Fathers and Young Men’s Transition to Adulthood
…or Of Boys and Men by Richard Reeves. They have even caught the eye of major figures on the left like Melinda Gates, someone known for championing women’s issues, who is pledging $20…