Search and filter by content type, issue area, author, and keyword
March 12, 2025
…they will make these three major decisions. Alabama could achieve this by incorporating the sequence into middle and high school curricula. It can be implemented through financial literacy standards, health, or…
March 3, 2025
Like other Cabinet agencies, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is moving quickly to undo long-standing progressive policies. New HUD Secretary Scott Turner has asserted that the agency is now “DEI-free.” Perhaps even more…
February 27, 2025
…of The Atlantic, does not directly criticize the assumptions behind such long-standing public policy in his new book, Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Back the Engine of American Opportunity….
February 25, 2025
…ago. By this standard, Ohio is in trouble. Consider these three rankings: Ohio ranks 3rd for deaths of despair (suicide, or drug or alcohol-related deaths). Ohio ranks 15th for child poverty,…
February 21, 2025
…this report, indicates that the state falls below average on key indicators of family strength. Ohio’s below-average standing on the Family Structure Index matters because this report will show how…
February 20, 2025
…opinion also consistent with long-run trends in living standards and opportunity? According to populists on the right and left, Americans have seen meager income growth at best. National conservatives like…
January 22, 2025
…a touchstone of Donald Trump’s second presidency. More robust growth not only implies higher incomes and living standards – surely the basic objective of economic policy – but also can…
January 16, 2025
…be sure, current levels of satisfaction are low by historical standards, but general dissatisfaction seems to be the status quo. Figure 1. Trends in Satisfaction with the Way Things Are…
January 7, 2025
…single parents who then stand to lose the credit in the event they marry another worker. The EITC therefore encourages single parenthood. The US has made great progress reducing child…
December 29, 2024
…“vacancy control” stands in the way of the rent increases owners need to invest simply to comply with building codes and lead abatement laws — rather than leaving units vacant….