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Op-Ed
The Test-Score Mystery
This summer, the nation received the kind of news it is not used to: apparent improvements…
Op-Ed
Status Defines Friendship for Too Many Americans
Why do I feel as if I’m being sold friends? Join a “modern social club,”…
Report
Wisconsin Childcare Subsidies, Regulations Fail for Families
Executive summary While parents play the most important role in early childhood development, having reliable and…
Commentary
How Fixing SNAP’s Payment Error Rate Formula Would Change State Cost Shares
For the first time in the history of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), starting…
Op-Ed
A Medicare-for-All Gift Is Staring the GOP in the Face
When Abdul El-Sayed became Michigan’s Democratic Senate nominee last week, his Republican opponent, Mike Rogers,…
Op-Ed
The Ongoing Battle to Defend Welfare Reform
Welfare reform replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families…
Blog
The Misleading Narrative About the ‘Hollowing Out’ of the Middle Class
The prevailing media narrative after years of mounting economic inequality is that the middle class…
Op-Ed
The Cautionary Tale of Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan
“If they knew they were going to stop investing in our community,” Angelica Cardenas told The Wall…
Op-Ed
New York’s ACS Is Failing Children and Kids Are Dying—Why Is Hochul Getting in the Way of Reforms That Would Save Lives?
The Jarvis children “used to be strong, but then she had to push them up…
Op-Ed
Thirty Years Later, Welfare Reform Is Still a Model That Works
The real lesson of the 1996 law remains that there is a better way for Americans in need, if only today’s lawmakers match their forebears in choosing it.
Op-Ed
Custody Courts’ Deadly Blind Spots
Was Lindsay Clancy acting deliberately when she strangled her three children in their Massachusetts home in 2023,…
Article
The American Dream Lives in Suburbia
Suburbia has long been a favorite target for cultural critics. Readers of a certain age…