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September 3, 2024

Doing Right by Kids: A Book Event

…the most disadvantaged adults when they grow up. In a new edited volume, Doing Right Kids: Leveraging Social Capital and Innovation to Increase Opportunity, leading scholars diagnose problems of unequal opportunity…

August 6, 2024

Trump’s Tax Law Diminished Incentives for Charitable Giving, But We Can Fix It

…do what government cannot. Such giving is the lifeblood of civil society, of organizations that bind communities together, whether through local park conservancies or school scholarship programs, or the kinds…

June 23, 2024

Is Systemic Racism Responsible for the Increase in Child Mortality Rates?

…injury-related fatalities have been growing. And new research from scholars at Virginia Commonwealth University finds that those deaths have been rising faster for young people who are Black or Native…

June 20, 2024

The War on Poverty at 60: Lessons to Inform the Future

…Fellow, Center for Health and Welfare Policy, Heritage Foundation Isabel V. Sawhill, Senior Fellow Emeritus, Center for Economic Security and Opportunity, Brookings Institution Moderator: Matt Weidinger, Rowe Scholar, American Enterprise…

June 18, 2024

Answering Key Questions About Unemployment Insurance Reforms

…system to better support American workers, businesses, and taxpayers. My name is Matt Weidinger, and I am a Rowe Scholar in poverty studies at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously, I…

June 13, 2024

Why Married Fathers Matter

…States. Meanwhile, young men are much more likely to be denizens of the basement or, even worse, prison or jail. What accounts for this male malaise? Education scholars Andrew Bacher-Hicks, Stephen…

May 29, 2024

Holding out Hope for a Left-Right Consensus on Federal Student Lending

…for many programs of questionable value. In fact, in a recent report co-authored with Beth alongside left-of-center scholars at The Century Foundation and Education Counsel, we endorsed the notion that federal graduate…

May 14, 2024

Biden Can Follow FDR and Dump His VP

…private capital investor and Rhodes Scholar, recently got a star turn on “60 Minutes.” She stood up to public sector unions in resolving the pension financing crisis in Little Rhody….

May 2, 2024

Q&A: A Conservative Vision for Education

…educators and scholars. So, when we say “conservative,” we have in mind a set of values and principles that undergird our approach to education. We couldn’t care less how you…

May 1, 2024

The closing of the American heart

…down from more than 85% in the 1950s. Judging by scholarship by Melissa Kearney (2023), Paul Amato (2005), and Sara McLanahan and Isabel Sawhill (2015), there is no question that the concern I had was merited….