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October 3, 2024
Stop the insanity. Our national debt now tops $35 trillion…
…more spending increases — despite the national debt soaring to $35 trillion, or more than $100,000 for each American, rich and poor alike. Under rosy assumptions, over $20 trillion in debt is projected to be…
September 27, 2024
Justice at Any Cost?
…status of NIAC (or NIA, nationally) meant that it faced lower operating costs. Now NIAC has announced that, as of October 1, it will no longer renew its contracts with…
September 21, 2024
Why Is Race Still a Factor in Adoption?
…tones, but Tucker is far more brazen. Ryan Hanlon, the president of the National Council for Adoption, notes that “there is an important role for adoption agencies to ensure pre-adoptive…
September 20, 2024
Don’t Believe the Doomsayers. The American Dream Is Still In Reach for Young People
…to live a fulfilling life, and only 22% say having children is extremely or very important. These attitudes have played out in practice: America and other nations continue to experience plummeting…
September 17, 2024
The Blue State Family Exodus: Families Are Migrating to Red and Purple States
…in the nation that saw more families leave than move into the state. Minnesota is no outlier. Parents are not generally moving towards states with the preferred family policies of…
September 9, 2024
The Nanny State Is Not the Answer to Parents’ Challenges
…our children’s prospects with those of others, as he notes, keeping up with the Joneses is not a new or diagnosable condition. It is part of human nature. And the…
September 5, 2024
Hurt Pennsylvania’s Workers to Win Pennsylvania’s Votes?
…good-paying union jobs” and raise “serious questions” about the likelihood that the company would remain headquartered in Pittsburgh. The national-security argument here seems equally straightforward: Japan is one of the…
September 2, 2024
This Is How to Fix the Housing Crisis
…need to dust off our history books and remember how this country raised the legal alcohol drinking age. The National Minimum Drinking Age Act of 1984 demanded states raise the minimum age…
August 29, 2024
Kamala Harris Wants to Turn the Tax Code into a Mammoth ATM
…tax credits for lower-income households leading the way. That naturally doesn’t include the 150 bills this Congress has proposed creating new or expanded tax credits, or Harris’s 2020 proposal to send $2,000-per-month…
August 27, 2024
Poverty Isn’t Neglect, and Money Isn’t Always the Answer
…of the maltreatment deaths in this country. The American public seems to understand that neglect is about more than just poverty. A nationally representative poll conducted by the Bipartisan Policy…