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March 6, 2024
College or Trade School? How About Both?
…true at the individual level is also true at the community level: Regions with higher concentrations of people with four-year degrees are wealthier and healthier. They also have a much easier time…
March 6, 2024
It’s Time to Scrap the Federal Student Loan Program
…cost. Colleges, in turn, have even less reason to try to control prices. It’s time to retire the whole apparatus. But is that even feasible? How would students afford college?…
March 5, 2024
The Societal Cost of the Marriage Decline
…headlines in the New York Times “Modern Love” section include: “Un-Marry Me!,” “Don’t Marry Your Boyfriend,” and “When a Breakup is An Act of Self-Love.” It’s not just the culture that’s the…
March 5, 2024
A Conservative Vision for Education Reform
…something important, which requires safeguarding it, maintaining it, and improving it until it’s time to hand it off to the next generation of custodians. There are many important things in…
March 4, 2024
Teen Suicide and the Limits of Sociology
…more stressful circumstances—poverty, war, abandonment seem like they would make suicide more likely than AP Physics. The problem is not the pressure per se. Tim Carney’s forthcoming Family Unfriendly and…
March 4, 2024
The state of the union isn’t strong because of the state of our unions
…spend much time on during his address, despite its vital importance to the health of our country. Too many Americans are living alone or in chaotic homes, in large…
March 1, 2024
How the Children’s Bureau Lost Its Way
…as a result of economic growth, laws around childhood labor and education and a social safety net that provided support to widows with dependent children. Over time, the Children’s Bureau…
February 22, 2024
Chronic Absenteeism Could Be the Biggest Problem Facing Schools Right Now
…to divert valuable class time toward helping chronically absent students catch up—which leaves less time to devote to students with more regular attendance, many of whom also need focused attention….
February 20, 2024
The New Right’s Attack on Markets Is as Ignorant as the Old Left’s
…have demonstrated the power to raise living standards over time. It is worth noting at this point that even the Nordic states, like that bastion of survival-of-the-fittest capitalism, Sweden, exhibit…
February 20, 2024
Planning a Career in the Age of AI
…time and money spent retraining of workers. As the chart below shows, today’s ubiquitous, internet-powered economy didn’t appear overnight. It took four decades to get us to where we are, and…