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February 15, 2024
Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies is back with its annual State of the Nation’s Housing report—and once again it reaches a bleak conclusion based on a loaded and leading…
February 15, 2024
…social, political, and civic institutions.” Tack on prolonged school closures, campus craziness, and declining test scores, and it’s no great surprise that public confidence in the nation’s schools and colleges…
February 14, 2024
It’s looking like this year’s election will feature a Trump-Biden rematch — a pairing that’s especially frustrating for education, where the nation is wrestling with a raft of real problems: dismal student…
February 14, 2024
…Nation asks, “Is Conservative Christianity Bad for Marriage?” and offers this answer: “Research Says Yes.” Online influencers like Pearl Davis suggest Christianity does little to stabilize marriage. Put another way, the culture offers…
February 14, 2024
…Last year, US Surgeon General Vivek Murthy issued an advisory on this new national problem, which was exacerbated by the Covid lockdowns. Following his appointment to the position, Murthy noted growing numbers of Americans…
February 14, 2024
…get from young men whenever I make the case for marriage at speaking events at colleges and high schools across the nation—recently in North Carolina, Virginia, Texas, and Utah. I…
February 13, 2024
…elite colleges and universities nationally were born to married parents who have since stayed married, versus 51 percent of high-school seniors across the country.) At the same time, a majority of my…
February 9, 2024
…repeat of staggering taxpayer losses. The coronavirus pandemic tested the nation’s unemployment benefits system more than any previous recession. Lockdowns and mass layoffs starting in March 2020—coupled with unprecedented new…
February 9, 2024
…of them. But one thing most people agree is that this is a big problem, for higher education and for our nation. Fortunately, most people are wrong on this one….
February 8, 2024
…work rather than collect benefits, and brought about a profound transformation to the nation’s welfare system. The result—depicted in Figure 1 below—was an unprecedented surge in labor force participation among…