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May 7, 2025
Workforce Participation for Older Americans: Warning Lights Flashing
…an era of population aging and potentially prolonged below-replacement fertility, retrogression in workforce involvement by older American men and women is a new normal we can ill afford. From the…
May 5, 2025
What’s in House Republicans’ Student Loan Overhaul
…the costs of RAP. More consequentially, it will discourage schools from loading students up with debt they can’t afford. The higher the debt, the higher the interest, and the likelier…
May 2, 2025
SNAP is About Nutrition: My Response to Zycher
…and low-income households, implying that it isn’t truly about helping low-income households afford nutritious foods. He asks: “Why else would the food stamp program have been housed from the beginning…
April 30, 2025
Is The Collapse of Blue-Collar Marriage a Foregone Conclusion?
It’s been just over 40 years since Springsteen’s bestselling Born in the USA came out in 1984 — an album with “a rowdy indomitable spirit,” as Debby Miller wrote in Rolling Stone at the time. The…
April 29, 2025
Good Jobs, Strong Families: How the Character of Men’s Work Is Linked to Their Family Status
Introduction Over the last half century, the U.S. economy has shifted, moving away from manufacturing and towards being an information and service economy. The mid-1980s, for instance, were punctuated by…
April 28, 2025
Letter to the Editor: Sugary Treats Shouldn’t Be on the SNAP Menu
…its mandate with its ever-expanding costs supporting poor diets on the taxpayer’s dime. It is only logical to return it to its original intent: helping low-income households afford nutritious foods….
April 25, 2025
What’s holding women back from starting a family?
Media influencer Brett Cooper did something last year that most people her age won’t: she got married. “It’s the most grounding experience I’ve ever had,” she told a crowd gathered…
April 24, 2025
Musk’s High-Tech Polygamy Is a Dead End
Elon Musk told a conference in Saudi Arabia last year that his listeners “should view the birthrate as the single biggest problem [we] need to solve. If you don’t make new humans,…
April 15, 2025
Is There Really Pent-Up Demand for Ten Times the Manufacturing Jobs We Have?
…workers less excited about them, not more. (And don’t tell them what would happen to the prices they pay for goods or how it would impact their ability to afford…
April 15, 2025
Utah Hands Parents the Keys to the App Store
Two devoted Utah parents experienced the unthinkable in 2022: They lost their 14-year-old son—a warm, football-loving boy—to suicide. In the painful days that followed, as they searched for answers, they…