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July 2, 2025
Have You Heard the Good News?
…was better decades ago. That’s mostly bullshit. Yes, we have real problems. But widen the aperture, and you’ll see that there has never been a better time to be alive than…
June 20, 2025
What Kids Need—and Adults Need to Know—to Combat the Youth Mental Health Crisis
…no doubt that having fewer screens and fewer hours of screen time will help students stay on task. But early indications show the bans haven’t really moved the needle on…
June 17, 2025
Work Requirements For Medicaid Could Increase Income and Reduce Poverty
…time limits will find jobs, most at part-time hours,” and that they would “find year-round jobs with an hourly wage of nearly $6.00.” The modeling was “static” in the sense…
June 16, 2025
Better Boys: The Difference Good Dads Make
…of fathers and future fathers by making schools more boy-friendly: adding male teachers in schools, expanding recess time, and recalibrating school curricula to be more boy-friendly. Secondly, by launching PSA campaigns spotlighting the valuable…
June 16, 2025
The ‘Father Divide’ and What it Means for Our Kids
…house (usually meaning they are married) experience dramatically better outcomes than any other arrangement. Dads who live at home spend 10 times as much time with their kids as dads who live…
June 4, 2025
Congress Is Subsidizing the Wrong Neighborhoods
…rate. It was a worthy attempt at bolstering development in areas needing greater investment to stimulate the local economy. As The Times reported in 2018, Senator Tim Scott, a South Carolina Republican…
May 27, 2025
The Surprising Role of Large Developers in Solving the Housing Crunch
…up 44% from $292,000 a decade ago. Despite elevated prices and interest rates, first-time buyers are purchasing more new homes than at any time in the past decade. This transformation…
May 15, 2025
The Pandemic Is Over. It’s Time for Schools to Get the Message.
More than five years after the covid-19 pandemic began, the havoc it wreaked on American students and schools is alarmingly clear by nearly every measure. But there is one glaring…
May 14, 2025
Libraries Are Doing the Work—Let’s Fund Them Accordingly
…loans, internet access, author talks, art exhibits, story time) Meeting essential community needs (e.g., food banks, job search support, services for unhoused individuals, free cell phones for youth) Civic engagement…
May 13, 2025
Out of Work and On the Dole — Is Uncle Sam Contributing to Young Men’s Malaise?
…non-intact family.” He added, “In fact, these young men are 36% less likely to hold down a full-time job by the time they hit their mid-twenties.” When it comes to…