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Op-Ed
Daddy Issues: Review of “Dad Brain: The New Science of Fatherhood and How It Shapes Men’s Lives”
…caring end up in separate occupational baskets.” Saxbe suggests our current society is in an in-between stage. Breadwinning is a shared responsibility, “but we have inherited long-standing, specialized gender roles…
Op-Ed
The Long, Slow Death of Social Democracy
…democracies during this period produced strong economic growth, low unemployment, rapidly rising living standards, and government action to provide protection and security for the average citizen. Reflecting these positive developments,…
Op-Ed
The Shrinking Middle Class and Booming Upper-Middle Class: The Plot Thickens
…for the middle class rose faster than did incomes lower down. We argued that defining the middle class this way obscures substantial increases in living standards across the income distribution….
Op-Ed
States Are Wrestling with How to Deal with Substance-Exposed Infants. New Mexico Offers a Warning
…of dead babies. Does the “A” in ACLU stands for adults? The organization seems to care nothing for the civil liberties of children or their right to be protected from…
Op-Ed
Why Mamdani’s Foster Care Cuts Make Sense
…have produced the drastic reduction in foster care. Instead, states may just be changing their standards for how severe maltreatment can be before it necessitates removal. Nonetheless, many advocacy groups…
Op-ed
New York Families Are Doing Better Than You’ve Heard
…can be tricky to evaluate because there is no agreed-upon way to define the middle class. Should it be defined in terms of a fixed standard of living, so that…
Op-ed
What Liberals Get Wrong About the Middle Class
…because it mixes inequality with people’s living standards, and those are two different things. In a recent report, we measured class using constant, inflation-adjusted thresholds. The “core” middle class shrank, but…
Op-Ed
Child Abuse and Neglect Are Intergenerational Problems. Policies to Protect Children Should Reflect That
…her own mother. Unfortunately, more and more states are creating different — that is, lower — standards for licensing kin for foster care in order to meet what are likely…
Op-Ed
Deadly Child-Abuse “Torture” Exposes NY’s Willful Blindness
…combined with the right’s interest in saving money and limiting government’s reach, have created the perfect storm. The Biden administration told states they could create looser standards for licensing kin…
Commentary
Zoning Creates Not Just a Housing Affordability Problem, but a Childcare Affordability Problem Too
…other areas of regulatory and zoning reform, reforms in this area should take place at the state level for maximum impact. State pre-emption of zoning is the gold standard, in…
Blog Post
Education Scorecard Looks Beyond Recovery
This week, the Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) at Harvard University and the Educational Opportunity Project (EOP) at Stanford University released the Education Scorecard, which uses data from the National…
Working Paper
The Value of Reliable Statistics
Abstract On August 1, 2025, President Trump fired the head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and claimed that the agency’s data were “rigged.” In the aftermath, measures…