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October 8, 2024
Unplanned Obsolescence
…cheaper, and better. Call it “unplanned skills obsolescence.” For students and workers who have spent years acquiring coding skills, this is a matter of deep concern, and it focuses attention on…
October 3, 2024
The New “Old Girls Network” in the American Workplace
…actively plan and participate in workplace social events. Additionally, they are more likely to confide in their coworkers about personal matters. This stronger social connection translates into higher job satisfaction…
October 3, 2024
Stop the insanity. Our national debt now tops $35 trillion…
America’s political leaders have a spending problem. They know entitlement programs feature benefit promises far exceeding their tax base, but have done nothing to make them sound. Meanwhile, both parties demand…
September 23, 2024
The Last Bipartisan Policy
…puts a greater premium on real, meaningful learning, but also on less-tangible measures, like motivation and teachability, that matter in job performance. Removing degree requirements isn’t about competing with traditional…
September 23, 2024
Toward a Potential Grand Bargain for the Nation
…Democracy commissioned subject matter experts—progressives, centrists, and conservatives—to develop a “Grand Bargain” encompassing all six issues. The policy debate typically puts these problems into silos, and within each silo, powerful…
September 20, 2024
Don’t Believe the Doomsayers. The American Dream Is Still In Reach for Young People
…gaps remain. While a person’s race matters increasingly less, there are community level characteristics whose absence or presence more directly drive individual prospects of upward or downward mobility. Indeed, this…
September 17, 2024
The Blue State Family Exodus: Families Are Migrating to Red and Purple States
…(or at least inoffensive and effective public schools) matters more to parents than free school lunches. And, to be frank, most parents object to policies that force their daughters to face biological…
September 12, 2024
Surgeon general’s dour picture of parenthood misses the mark
…and acknowledges that it matters not only to individuals but all of society. He also notes that the well-being of parents is linked to children’s mental health, and that we…
September 11, 2024
Doing Right by Kids: A Book Event
…more than ever, the Manhattan Institute’s Kay S. Hymowitz advocated for increased workforce and apprenticeship training for working-class men, and AEI’s Matt Weidinger described some of the safety net’s perverse…
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…using IPUMS microdata. (See Steven Ruggles, Sarah Flood, Matthew Sobek, Daniel Backman, Annie Chen, Grace Cooper, Stephanie Richards, Renae Rodgers, and Megan Schouweiler. IPUMS USA: Version 15.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN:…