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September 18, 2023

West Virginia Budget Cuts Are a Taste of Higher Ed’s Future

…the rising cost of college and a “national narrative that questioned the value of college,” as reasons WVU would expect to see fewer applicants in coming years. It is now…

September 18, 2023

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

…a single parcel of land, LTD is both naturally affordable and naturally inclusionary, creating upward mobility naturally through a more accessible housing market. All it takes is repealing the laws…

September 18, 2023

A Degree of Risk

…what they have borrowed, if anything at all. As my colleague at the American Enterprise Institute, Nat Malkus, has argued, Biden’s IDR reforms would ostensibly transform a loan repayment program into…

September 18, 2023

Biden’s Latest Student-Loan Plan Is Another Disaster

Late last month, President Biden and his Department of Education announced the launch of the “SAVE” Plan, a reform that expands existing income-driven repayment (IDR) programs to the tune of up to $550 billion. Now,…

September 17, 2023

Tracking ‘two-parent privilege’ in Utah

Utah was just acknowledged by WalletHub as the happiest state in the nation, and it’s no secret that Utah leads many state performance rankings in America. From the economy — including…

September 15, 2023

Why Industrial Policy Fails

…combined with fighting climate change, advancing progressive social goals, and protecting US national security. What should the US do instead? First, to safeguard national security, it should identify a narrow…

September 14, 2023

The Privilege Hiding in Plain Sight

…In regard to the former, the National Assessment for Educational Progress (a.k.a. the Nation’s Report Card) reports reams of educational data disaggregated by race, gender, geography, and other usual-suspect categories….

September 12, 2023

Who Is Happiest? Married Mothers and Fathers, Per the Latest General Social Survey

…women and men truly the happiest, or are women and men today who are married with children happier? The 2022 edition of the General Social Survey (GSS)—the nation’s preeminent social…

September 6, 2023

Why Staten Island seceding from NYC makes sense — for multiple reasons

…and other common interests can be best accomplished by united efforts and by forces directed from One united municipality.” Proponents also wanted to make sure the city was the nation’s…

September 1, 2023

Paying People to Have Kids Can Only Do So Much When You’re in a Spiraling Baby Bust

…very low, and nowhere near replacement level. Hungary’s population is still falling every year. China, since abandoning its anti-natal policies, has tried going pro-natal. That hasn’t worked, and China’s population is…