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June 18, 2024
A Unified Theory of Education
…can too readily unravel the informal ties among people that develop organically through private cooperation and community endeavors. None of this presumes malice or malfeasance; it’s just that government programs…
June 17, 2024
Child Support Policy: Areas of Emerging Agreement and Ongoing Debate
…for cost recovery; collected child support should always directly benefit children, not offset government costs. Finally, we outline areas of agreement and disagreement related to mandated cooperation with CSE. In…
June 10, 2024
The Economic World We’ve Lost
…more damage, especially if he were to pull the US out of NATO. More than just defense is at stake. International security alliances and global economic cooperation foster peace and…
May 29, 2024
Holding out Hope for a Left-Right Consensus on Federal Student Lending
…Earlier this month, the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity’s (FREOPP) Preston Cooper and Beth hosted a webinar to discuss a recent report the three of us co-authored on the potential for expanding the…
April 3, 2024
Feds Should Take a Big Step Back on Student Loans
…colleges to precipitously raise costs. These are just some of the reasons why I argue, in a new paper out this week with Preston Cooper and Joe Pitts that we need to…
December 18, 2023
The State of Democratic Capitalism: 2023
…on politics erodes. And the larger the role of the state in economic affairs, the smaller the role for voluntary cooperation among society as a whole. The voluntary nature of…
November 9, 2023
Child Support Policy: Areas of Emerging Agreement and Ongoing Debate
…government costs. Finally, we outline areas of agreement and disagreement related to mandated cooperation with CSE. In this way, we aim to clarify both areas where bipartisan policy reforms may…
October 20, 2023
Value Needs to be the Next Buzzword in Higher Education
…decision-making. For our first panel, I was joined by Sarah Turner, professor and economist at the University of Virginia; Preston Cooper, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal…