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June 18, 2025

The (Non) Effect of Tariffs on Manufacturing Employment

…immigrants and to negotiate better trade deals. He has also argued that tariffs will advance US national security and economic resilience, and be a source of revenue for the federal…

June 17, 2025

Work Requirements For Medicaid Could Increase Income and Reduce Poverty

…are sanctioned and preventing people from joining the rolls in the first place. Those were certainly a key feature of the national 1996 welfare reform; states measured their success in…

June 16, 2025

Better Boys: The Difference Good Dads Make

…nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Linda Malone-Colon, dean of Hampton University’s School of Liberal Arts and Education, is executive director of the National Center for Black Family…

June 16, 2025

The ‘Father Divide’ and What it Means for Our Kids

…The Importance of Fatherhood in Virginia” was released this week from a diverse group of researchers, including scholars from the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia, the National…

June 13, 2025

Good Fathers, Flourishing Kids: The Importance of Fatherhood in Virginia

National Center for Black Family Life at Hampton University, the Institute for Family Studies, and the National Marriage Project. Read the full report here. UVA – Good Fathers, Flourishing Kids ReportDownload…

June 12, 2025

Lingering Absence in Public Schools: Tracking Post-Pandemic Chronic Absenteeism into 2024

Key Points Chronic absenteeism spiked during the pandemic and remains a serious problem. In 2024, rates were 57 percent higher than they were pre-pandemic and only 2 percentage points lower…

June 10, 2025

America’s Housing Supply Problem: The Closing of the Suburban Frontier?

Housing prices across much of America have hit historic highs, while less housing is being built. If the U.S. housing stock had expanded at the same rate from 2000-2020 as…

June 5, 2025

More Evidence of How Housing Regulation Is Bad for Housing

…expensive quirk. Now they’ve gone viral, spreading to previously responsive markets nationwide.  The stakes couldn’t be higher: Either America rediscovers how to build, or it accepts managed economic decline disguised…

June 5, 2025

The One Thing Both Parties Agree On: More Deficits and Debt

The House of Representatives recently passed by a single vote Republicans’ “One Big Beautiful Bill” that reflects President Donald Trump’s tax and spending agenda, and GOP senators are now working to put their…

June 4, 2025

Congress Is Subsidizing the Wrong Neighborhoods

…who championed the provision, explained that he was motivated by his belief that “there’s untapped potential in every state in the nation.” The problem? Opportunity zones were meant to be…