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February 24, 2025
What Do You Call an Automatic Stabilizer that Doesn’t Shrink When Conditions Improve? The Biden Food Stamps Blowout
…but this time displaying SNAP recipients as a percentage of the US population. It similarly shows how, after an initial spike in response to the pandemic, the percentage of the…
February 24, 2025
A Glut of MBAs?
It’s all about the skills, not the credentials. You know the labor market times are changing when Harvard MBAs start showing up in the unemployment stories. According to a recent Wall…
February 24, 2025
AI and American Dynamism
…of AI adoption. Where AI causes job loss, a creative, flexible response to reskilling and retraining is necessary. At the same time, we also need to pay attention to AI adoption and…
February 21, 2025
Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 2025
…Virtue (CCV) and the Institute for Family Studies (IFS). The index, which is based on trends in marriage, family stability, and fertility and is introduced for the first time in…
February 20, 2025
The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated
…Oren Cass claim that workers have endured “decades of stagnant wages.” Progressives typically agree, as when New York Times journalist David Leonhardt asserted in his recent book that, “For almost half a century now, incomes and…
February 18, 2025
Why So Blue: Liberal Women Are Less Happy, More Lonely. But Why?
…their conservative peers. Specifically, we found that 37% of conservative women reported being “completely satisfied” with life, whereas only 12% of liberal women did. Young conservative women are three times as likely…
February 18, 2025
Family-Friendly Policies for the 119th Congress
Key Points American birth rates have hit record lows, but Americans still say they want children. Family formation seems unattainable to many parents. There is no single federal policy that…
February 14, 2025
Poverty During the Pandemic and the Role of Government Transfers
…2015 poverty rate of 13.5% for the full sample. These thresholds are then adjusted over time using the Bias-Corrected CPI-U-RS, which subtracts 0.8 percentage points from the growth in the…
February 11, 2025
AI and the Future of Work Looks Bright
…that equip workers to understand and seize the opportunities that lie ahead. Forecasts about the impact of this new general-purpose technology (GPT) on jobs and skills vary widely — and, at times,…
February 10, 2025
For Better: Four Proven Ways To A Strong And Stable Marriage
…leftwing journalists like Amy Shearn, who tells us in The New York Times that “Married motherhood in America… is a game no one wins,” and rightwing online influencers like Andrew Tate, who claim…