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March 6, 2024
College or Trade School? How About Both?
…the false dichotomies that riddle discussions about post-secondary education. The most important thing to remember about the benefits and costs of college education is that national wealth is directly related to levels of…
March 6, 2024
It’s Time to Scrap the Federal Student Loan Program
…is making the problem worse. In lieu of a student lending program, he’s busy establishing a massive government subsidy to the affluent, the nation’s college-goers, and the higher education cartel….
March 6, 2024
Caitlin Clark and Civil Society
When Larry Bird won his first National Basketball Association championship with the Boston Celtics in 1982, he made one of the best locker room interview comments ever. Between puffs of a…
March 5, 2024
The Societal Cost of the Marriage Decline
…is certainly important, but a national conversation about the decline of marriage requires that we understand the consequences it has for the nation. Lack of Societal Support The dispiriting part…
March 5, 2024
A Conservative Vision for Education Reform
…nominally nonpartisan organizations such as the National Academy of Education and the American Educational Research Association, the politics of the teacher unions, and even the legacy media coverage of our education debates….
March 4, 2024
Exploring America’s Social Safety Net And The Political Fights Around It
…government came up with a uniform way to measure poverty by comparing a family’s income against a national threshold. In 1959, the poverty rate sat at around 22 percent. By…
March 4, 2024
Teen Suicide and the Limits of Sociology
…this is the nature of the topic. We will never know exactly why and the questions we are left with may better be answered by philosophy or theology than sociology….
March 4, 2024
As the family goes, so goes the state. Utah gets this
When it comes to realizing the nation’s most important ideals — from the American dream to the “pursuit of happiness” — Utah has a well-deserved reputation for leading out. The…
March 4, 2024
The state of the union isn’t strong because of the state of our unions
Thomas Jefferson, the nation’s third president, is justly famous for underlining the importance of “Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness” for our new nation in the Declaration of Independence….
March 1, 2024
How the Children’s Bureau Lost Its Way
…look after the Nation’s child crop?” It seems like a lovely sentiment, but the nation’s child crop is considerably larger than it was back then and the percentage of children…