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Commentary
Assessing Duplicative Federal Benefit Programs and Preventing Abuse
…Benefits and Services for People with Low Income: Programs and Spending, FY2008–FY2013, Congressional Research Service, January 15, 2015, https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/R/PDF/R43863/R43863.6.pdf. [1] Patrick A. Landers et al., Federal Benefits and Services for People with Low Income:…
Op-Ed
What Harvard’s Raj Chetty Overlooks About Upward Mobility
…was new, it, too, was a desirable residence and launched successful children. Former Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick lived in the Robert Taylor Homes, as did the great baseball player Kirby…
Op-Ed
Snow Excuses
The past few years have featured a lot of hand-wringing about chronic absenteeism and the insanity of extended pandemic school closures. Most everyone now agrees that academic growth, social development, and mental health call for…
Op-Ed
AI in K–12: A New Year Reality Check for School Leaders
…reached out to Michael for a reality check. Here’s what he had to say. —Rick Rick: Michael, educators have heard a lot about what AI means for schools over the past few years….
Blog Post
Improving Medicare Program Integrity
…the high volume of FFS claims unavoidably entail some degree of payment risk. The trick is to put up guardrails that minimize the losses without compromising ready access to care…
Article
Has Marriage Fallen Because Young Adults Can’t Afford Homes?
…Home Sale Prices Have Risen Relative to Incomes, But Not as Much as It Might Appear As evidence of an affordability crisis facing young adults, Patrick Brown of the Ethics…
Blog Post
AI Has Come for K–12 Education
…as the 22 percent of school district leaders, suggesting administrators’ AI sensibilities are out of step with families’ trepidation. As the Manhattan Institute’s Andy Smarick has pointed out, AI’s entry into…
Blog Post
Congress Should Look to Employer Health Coverage to Help Low-Wage Workers
…instead of insurance. That seems to be what Senators Rick Scott and Bill Cassidy have in mind. It is not clear if individuals would be eligible for support if they were not enrolled in…
Op-Ed
Can School Reform Be Bipartisan Again?
…new endeavor and how he sees the broader choice landscape. Here’s what he had to say. – Rick Rick: Mike, earlier this fall, you started a new Substack called “SCHOOLED.” Care…
Op-Ed
Parent-School Partnerships Can Drive Academic Gains. Here’s How
…to pick her brain. Here’s what she had to say. –Rick Rick: How did Learning Heroes get started? Bibb: Cindi Williams, now the CEO of Waypoint Education Partners, and I co-founded Learning…
Op-Ed
Finding Common Ground on Trump’s College Compact
As with so much in 2025, the Trump administration’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” provoked predictably tribal reactions from college leaders and politicians. As predictable? What risks…
Op-Ed
What Could the New Federal Tuition Tax Credit Mean for School Choice?
…this summer. —Rick Rick: Ashley, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about the new federal tuition tax credit that passed as part of last summer’s huge reconciliation bill, also known…