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September 25, 2023

America Remains a Shining Beacon for the World

…immigrants (60 percent) believe their children’s standard of living will be better than theirs is now. Notably, the immigrant standard of living figure is higher than the share of US-born…

September 21, 2023

Testimony | Spurring Innovation in Workforce Development: Program Governance and Service Delivery

…(WIOA). Early in my career, I supported Governor Mike Leavitt in negotiating and implementing the legislation that created the Utah Department of Workforce Services, which still stands today as the…

September 21, 2023

How Health Policy Laws Are Hurting College Students and Their Families

…they were in some kind of danger. Lawsuits by parents over their children’s suicides are not uncommon. From a soccer goalie at Stanford to a basketball star at Canisius College…

September 21, 2023

How Health Privacy Laws Are Hurting College Students and Their Families

…they were in some kind of danger. Lawsuits by parents over their children’s suicides are not uncommon. From a soccer goalie at Stanford to a basketball star at Canisius College…

September 18, 2023

“Player Piano” (Revisited) in the Age of AI

…a member of the Reeks and Wrecks, it is just $30. “I think it’s clear,” says Radical, “that the American standard of living has tumbled eighty percent.” The rebuttal, judged…

September 18, 2023

Students’ Lack of Basic Knowledge of US History and Civics Remains a National Embarrassment

…in 10 questions correctly. Among those under the age of 45, only one in five pass, which says a lot about the debased standards of common knowledge expected of students…

September 18, 2023

There’s an Easy Fix That Would Solve Our Housing Crisis: Light Touch Density

…increases the supply of housing for middle-income households, when what we have now is the opposite—long-standing exclusionary zoning laws that limit most areas of the nation to single-family detached homes,…

September 18, 2023

No Culture Wars, Please, We’re Academics

…seeks to maintain her standing in her narrow world, Ian Rowe of the American Enterprise Institute has been going around the country trying to get schools to teach the “Success…

September 18, 2023

A Degree of Risk

…facilitate changes to our higher education system that are necessary and overdue: making college less risky for students, holding colleges and universities to a higher standard and reining in the…

September 15, 2023

What Does a Good Economy Look Like?

…workers regaining more ground. But the sourness of public opinion on the economy seems to match up pretty well with Furman’s estimates. At the very least, no matter where we stand relative…