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October 30, 2024
Workforce Strategies for New Industrial Policies: Governors’ Emerging Solutions
New research from the Project on Workforce and the National Governors Association highlights how governors are leveraging new industrial policy opportunities to strengthen workforce development and meet labor market needs….
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…sources), using the change in real GDP per hour from Kendrick (1973), Appendix Table A-17. I then compute real GDP per hour for 1915 by obtaining real GDP from Kendrick…
June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
…worthy of this great nation. That’s where a unified theory just might help. Frederick M. Hess is the director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Michael Q….
June 18, 2024
Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility
…and otherwise help out the lower-income communities that are least able to help themselves. However, as the Manhattan Institute’s Andy Smarick has suggested in these pages, they should seek to keep…
December 15, 2023
Pro-Family Policy Priorities for States
Introduction America’s system of federalism means that the is- sues that most directly impact the lives of parents and families are often most appropriately dealt with at the state level….
December 1, 2023
Unlocking Economic Prosperity: Career Navigation in a Time of Rapid Change
New research from the Project on Workforce and the National Fund for Workforce Solutions sets an evidence-based, field-informed agenda for a 21st century career navigation ecosystem. Pathways to economic opportunity…
September 26, 2023
Former Foster Kids Need More Than Higher Education
…find an adoptive home. When explaining why he supported the Fostering Success in Higher Education Act, Davis, the Illinois congressman, cited Frederick Douglass’ words: “It is easier to build strong…
January 3, 2023
Systemic Disadvantage
…in the black community, has also grown significantly in the low-income white population. When Daniel Patrick Moynihan sounded the alarm over the breakdown of the black family in 1965, unmarried…