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March 17, 2025

Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood

…clearly dissatisfied with the male status quo has forced some otherwise progressive thinkers to admit something’s changing. Recently on “Real Time with Bill Maher,” former Congressman Tim Ryan, a Democrat…

March 17, 2025

Trump Should Put an End to Rent Control

We are in a time when what would have seemed to be unimaginable domestic policy changes — from the abolition of the Department of Education to cutoffs of federal support for universities — are on the table.  The Department…

March 13, 2025

Two Charts Show Why a Trade War Over Fentanyl Doesn’t Make Sense

…both of our neighbors over fentanyl is that the United States seizes over 500 times more fentanyl on the border with Mexico than it does on the border with Canada…

March 13, 2025

The Return To Student Loan Repayment, In Four Charts

In March 2020, the federal government enacted a “temporary” pause on student loan repayment, which the Trump and Biden administrations extended a grand total of eight times. But as of…

March 12, 2025

Why Alabama Needs The Success Sequence

…have markedly higher odds of realizing the American Dream: get at least a high school education  work full time  marry before having children A stunning 97% of young adults who…

March 4, 2025

A Model for Effective and Reasonable Work Requirements

…psychology and medicine, the concept of “secondary gain” defines motivations for developing or maintaining illnesses. These might include financial benefits (such as disability payments), time off from work, and increased…

March 3, 2025

It’s Time for Time Limits on Public Housing

time limit alone for non-elderly subsidized housing tenants. As a result, tenants would immediately have an incentive to plan for a non-subsidized future. Indeed, a time limit virtually implies a…

February 28, 2025

Less Than Half of Medicaid Recipients Work Enough to Comply With a Work Requirement

…At the same time, individuals who do not comply with the work requirement may lose health insurance coverage. Underlying the policy debate is the extent to which Medicaid recipients already…

February 27, 2025

The GOP Is Still the Pro-Marriage Party

…in prison or jail than graduate from college if they grow up apart from their own married parents. By contrast, young men raised by married parents are four times more…

February 27, 2025

Powering AI: The Energy Workforce Crisis No One Is Talking About

…may represent a quantum leap in human capacity, but without the skilled workers to make it run, including energy workers, it will have a hard time delivering on its promise….