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October 17, 2023
Understanding Poverty Measurement
COSM scholars and AEI affiliates include some of the nation’s foremost experts on poverty measurement. On October 17, COSM gathered several of these scholars to provide a primer on opportunity…
October 17, 2023
Measuring Value in Higher Education
Event Description As Republicans and Democrats on the Hill and in state legislatures nationwide seek to address the rising debt burden facing college graduates, new focus has been placed on…
October 17, 2023
What Poor Children Need
…households with married parents, and work incentives in social spending programs. There is growing evidence that both sides are right. A new book-length report published by the US National Academy…
October 13, 2023
Liberals Reap Consequences Of Their Homeless Policies
…because of Ronald Reagan turning his back on public housing. Indeed, the Martin v. Boise case, whose decision now protects the right to sleep outdoors, was argued by the Washington National Center…
October 12, 2023
The GOP Should Be the Party of Parents
…both nationwide and in key battleground states, now trust Republicans more than Democrats on education — reversing a decades-old trend. The Democrats gave parents the impression that their children were…
October 12, 2023
Blue States Are Getting More Federal Money Than They Should
…cash welfare), the National School Lunch Program, water and sewer infrastructure, and education at the elementary and secondary levels. They include both “categorical” grants — that can be used for…
October 12, 2023
I Spoke to Arne Duncan About School Reform. Here Are 5 Takeaways
…with viewers had me pondering how much of a full circle we’ve traveled, given that the Clinton-Bush-Obama school reform era really took off when the nation’s governors (including a guy…
October 11, 2023
CHANGING THE OFFICIAL POVERTY MEASURE WOULD HELP RICH STATES AND HURT POOR STATES
Earlier this year, a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine report recommended elevating the Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) to the “nation’s headline poverty statistic,” and noted that the Office…
October 10, 2023
The Best Place for Kids Isn’t Always Their Home
…terribly wrong in her home. And nothing was done. Was it incompetence or laziness, or was it a reflection of how our nation has come to view vulnerable children? More…
October 10, 2023
New White House Proposal to Further Alienate Religious Foster Parents
…but it’s unconstitutional and will probably exacerbate the nationwide shortage of foster families. First, issues regarding child welfare are governed by the states, not the feds. Placement for foster care…