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March 12, 2025

Why Alabama Needs The Success Sequence

…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

It’s Time for Time Limits on Public Housing

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

How Progressive Policy Distorted the Housing Market

…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

Ohio Ranks Only 29th In The Family Structure Index

…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

Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 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

The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated

…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

How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target

…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

Should We Believe the Economic Data or Americans’ “Lyin’” Eyes? The Answer Is Yes.

…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

Tax Policy Should Prioritize Shoring Up the Family

…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

Why Rent Regulation Remains So Hard to Undo in NYC

…“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….