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October 23, 2023
Teach Your Children Well
…are also real habits and real pieces of knowledge that enable some kids to get ahead. And they matter a lot more than whether you know different words for Italian…
October 17, 2023
Understanding Poverty Measurement
COSM scholars and AEI affiliates include some of the nation’s foremost experts on poverty measurement. On October 17, COSM gathered several of these scholars to provide a primer on opportunity…
October 17, 2023
What Poor Children Need
…commentators should not be afraid to say that having two married parents helps kids succeed. Messages matter. Those of us with influence on public debates need to do more to re-establish…
October 12, 2023
The GOP Should Be the Party of Parents
…early maternal and neonatal care. The mechanism for such coverage would matter. Vance has shown a willingness to get into policy details and build legislative coalitions in other arenas, so…
October 12, 2023
Now the Administration Is Legislating on Welfare, Too
…at stake. It’s a task for another day to compare the differences between recent congressional and the new administration proposals on all these counts. In the end, those distinctions matter far…
October 12, 2023
Blue States Are Getting More Federal Money Than They Should
…matter. That’s why the three largest “blue states” — California, New York, and Illinois, which, between 2010 and 2020, together lost a total of 1.1 million residents, or more than…
October 12, 2023
I Spoke to Arne Duncan About School Reform. Here Are 5 Takeaways
…Erica Green (you can see the video here). Across town, at exactly the same time, Rep. Matt Gaetz and his gang of very online arsonists were toppling the House Speaker out…
October 12, 2023
Blue-State Benefits: How Federal Grants Fail to Consider Population Shift
…grants; the opposite is also true, although some programs guarantee a minimum for any state, no matter its size. What’s more—as common sense would dictate—when a state’s population declines, that…
October 10, 2023
Judge Erik Pitchal’s Warped Mindset Led to Baby Ella Vitalis’ Death
…into foster care because they were at “substantial risk of death.” That risk didn’t seem to matter to Judge Erik Pitchal, who — even after another incident a few months…
October 5, 2023
Changing the Official Poverty Measure Would Help Rich States and Hurt Poor States
…producing independent and apolitical statistics. Aside from these process related issues, policymakers should be concerned about this matter for two additional reasons. First, as already noted making the SPM the…