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August 8, 2025
A win for Wisconsin families: Childcare in the 2025-2027 biennial state budget
Wisconsin’s 2025-2027 biennial budget includes several provisions aimed at improving the affordability of childcare in the Badger state, ending the misguided effort to directly support private childcare providers’ operating expenses…
May 7, 2025
Did ‘China Shock’ Throw Millions of Americans Out of Work?
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed Monday, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent claimed that “3.7 million Americans lost their jobs” due to the “China Shock”—the increased import competition occurring after China was granted membership…
March 27, 2025
The Looming Debt Crisis, the Trump Tax Cuts, and Medicaid
…In a series of budget proposals spanning several years, Ryan proposed deficit reduction mainly through reductions in entitlement spending, including specific reforms to social security, Medicare, and Medicaid. Many Democrats castigated Ryan…
March 17, 2025
Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood
…clearly dissatisfied with the male status quo has forced some otherwise progressive thinkers to admit something’s changing. Recently on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” former Congressman Tim Ryan, a Democrat…
October 3, 2024
Stop the insanity. Our national debt now tops $35 trillion…
America’s political leaders have a spending problem. They know entitlement programs feature benefit promises far exceeding their tax base, but have done nothing to make them sound. Meanwhile, both parties demand…
September 21, 2024
Why Is Race Still a Factor in Adoption?
…tones, but Tucker is far more brazen. Ryan Hanlon, the president of the National Council for Adoption, notes that “there is an important role for adoption agencies to ensure pre-adoptive…
March 14, 2024
The Chipping Away at Safe Haven Laws
…Ryan Hanlon, who heads the National Council for Adoption, told me, “Without additional information, why would we act to disrupt the decision the mother made in placing her child as…
March 6, 2024
College or Trade School? How About Both?
…premiums that previous generations enjoyed. Further, as economist Bryan Caplan has pointed out, the value of a degree is back-loaded, with almost all of the economic returns concentrated in the final year of…
February 7, 2024
Elite Colleges Need to Offer Less Affirmation. And Insist on More Work.
…arrive, however, they hunt for professors with low expectations,” George Mason University economist Bryan Caplan noted in The Case Against Education. We need to reset expectations and incentives for students and…
January 7, 2023
Personal Responsibility, Not Victimhood, Is the Path to Success
…As the economist Bryan Caplan commented, the causation between the success sequence and poverty is obvious: “‘Dropping out, idleness, and single parenthood make you poor’ is on par with ‘burning money…