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Blog Post
Welfare Reform and Its Discontents
…has fallen steadily since 2008. 13 Robert Rector has determined that the brief increase in the nonmarital birth rate from 2002 to 2007 reflects (1) out-of-wedlock births to older women…
Article
The American Dream Lives in Suburbia
…Crime is at record lows, and ‘inner cities’ in San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Boston are vital,” wrote Harvard social scientist Robert J. Sampson, author of Great American City. “Meanwhile,…
Commentary
Lessons from the 1996 Welfare Reform Law Approaching Its 30th Anniversary
…the 1996 law was crafted and implemented, the US witnessed an unprecedented surge in work participation among never-married single mothers—the group most likely to depend on welfare checks. As Robert…
Op-Ed
Keep Antivax Politics Out of Foster Parent Licensing
…But many are trying to exert pressure on government and nongovernmental agencies to abandon vaccine guidance for other people’s children. Children’s Health Defense, the anti-vaccine group Robert F. Kennedy Jr….
Op-Ed
When Washington Picks Up the States’ Tab, Waste and Fraud Follow
…funds, when someone else picks up the tab, there are simply fewer incentives to control spending. Robert Westbrooks, a former federal inspector general, pointedly asked in his testimony, “Why are Federally Funded,…
Op-Ed
Dem Policymakers Plan to Exploit AI Job Fears to Push the ‘Perfect Recipe for Fraud’
…requires ignoring the experience of those who ran the troubled pandemic program. As Robert Asaro Angelo, New Jersey’s labor commissioner, testified in 2023, PUA created a “perfect recipe for fraud,” and he…
Article
Compiling My Work on Work Incentives
…much cleaner than before. One new feature of the site is the “Spotlight on Work Incentives” page. There we’ve highlighted three previously published pieces each by Kevin Corinth, Robert Doar,…
Op-Ed
What Harvard’s Raj Chetty Overlooks About Upward Mobility
…long-term economic gains for children. Any federal policy — in this case, the Clinton-era HOPE VI program to demolish crime-ridden public housing such as Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes, the nation’s largest —…
Op-Ed
A Bipartisan Step Toward Smarter College Accountability
Rarely do Washington policymakers find common ground on higher-education reform. Conservatives often call for discipline in how taxpayer dollars are spent. Progressives typically focus on protecting students from predatory institutions…
Blog Post
AI Has Come for K–12 Education
…offload the hard work to ChatGPT. My colleague Robert Pondiscio has a complementary warning about the “illusion of learning.” My former colleague Andy Smarick is also worried, arguing that AI’s convenience is…
Op-Ed
The Golden Age of Public Housing—and Why It Didn’t Last
…to 800,000 public housing units. It was a time recalled fondly and nostalgically by the one-time residents of public housing projects such as Chicago’s Robert Taylor Homes, the Pruitt-Igoe high-rises…
Blog Post
To Improve Student Outcomes, Focus On Classroom Practice, Not Policy
Last week, I had the privilege of delivering keynote remarks at Marquette University Law School’s Lubar Center for a conference focused on redirecting K-12 education reform toward classroom teaching. Inspired…