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March 24, 2025
The Student Loan Payment Pause Was a Catastrophic Mistake
…pause might end, but then the federal government extended it eight times. The president announced that he would forgive your loans. The Supreme Court knocked him down. Then the president said…
March 21, 2025
Increasing Financial Aid Isn’t the Solution to High College Costs
…federal Pell Grant, which advocates claim has lost its “purchasing power” over time. This narrative is misleading. In fact, policymakers have made financial aid programs such as Pell Grants far…
March 20, 2025
To Transform K-12 Education, the Trump Administration Should Measure What Matters
…up in stable two-parent homes enjoy, on average, more quality adult time, greater economic resources, and increased emotional support from their parents. More than a decade ago, the obvious relevance…
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…
March 17, 2025
Trump Should Put an End to Rent Control
We are in a time when what would have seemed to be unimaginable domestic policy changes — from the abolition of the Department of Education to cutoffs of federal support for universities — are on the table. The Department…
March 12, 2025
Why Alabama Needs The Success Sequence
…have markedly higher odds of realizing the American Dream: get at least a high school education work full time marry before having children A stunning 97% of young adults who…
February 27, 2025
The GOP Is Still the Pro-Marriage Party
…in prison or jail than graduate from college if they grow up apart from their own married parents. By contrast, young men raised by married parents are four times more…
February 27, 2025
How Progressive Policy Distorted the Housing Market
…Putnam’s Bowling Alone. Per Appelbaum, when new communities filled with new arrivals emerge, they have a strong impetus to form Tocquevillian civic groups; more stagnant communities lose such groups over time….
February 25, 2025
We Replaced Families with Uncle Sam. DOGE Must Make the Right Choices When Cutting
…rate. More broadly, what we see is that children in single-mother families are four times more likely to be poor in Ohio than children in married families. For DOGE, and…
February 25, 2025
Ohio Ranks Only 29th In The Family Structure Index
…be more family friendly. Given the importance of full-time work and regular schedules for parents, businesses should aim to transition more of their employees onto a regular, full-time schedule. Baby…