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June 18, 2024
Economic Opportunity and Social Mobility
…the one before it, that doesn’t seem to be the case. As they approach and pass age 40, Millennial men and women have higher median hourly wages than any previous…
May 24, 2024
The First National Calculation of Mortality of the US Homeless Population
…2023. West Coast cities have witnessed an especially sharp and concentrated increase in unsheltered homelessness, leading some observers to liken the current situation to a public health and humanitarian crisis….
May 14, 2024
Biden Can Follow FDR and Dump His VP
Almost exactly 80 years ago, a Democratic leader from the Bronx huddled privately with President Franklin D. Roosevelt. As told in the powerful new book by historian David Roll, “Ascent…
May 4, 2024
Make Parents Pay for Kids Who Miss School To Curb Chronic School Absenteeism
…enrollment by 25%” per the National Bureau of Economic Research. Learnfare is the law today in liberal Massachusetts, which shows that such an approach does not have to be draconian. Chronic…
April 30, 2024
I’m a Conservative But Defunding NPR Is a Mistake. What Should Happen Instead Might Be Surprising
…be the vehicle for voices from across the country – Christian conservatives as well as progressives, local elected officials as well as Rep. Adam Schiff—engaged in the issues affecting their…
April 23, 2024
Awkward Truth: Subsidizing Women’s Work Drives Down Birthrates
…popular in Europe and the U.S. for the first 20 years of this century: If we support women working, then they will have more children. A headline in the Guardian declared: “France’s…
April 22, 2024
John Silber, the Campuses Have Need of You
…on the West Bank. It singles out Caterpillar for selling equipment to Israel said to be used to demolish Palestinian homes; disable water, sanitation, and hygiene infrastructure; destroy or uproot…
April 18, 2024
The Real Story Behind Food Insecurity in the US
…Christian Gregory recently found that most food insecure individuals “consume enough (or even too many) calories.” And research by Craig Gundersen and David Ribar found that most of those who spend the least on…
April 18, 2024
Back from the brink: The intellectual tide is turning on marriage and civil society
…often have discounted the importance of the nation’s houses of worship. One recent New Yorker article, for instance, suggested faith left Christian men tortured by “guilt and shame that makes…
April 9, 2024
Child Abandonment in the Name of Compassion
A self-described libertarian friend once described to me the feeling she had when it was time to leave the hospital with her newborn baby. She remembered looking at the nurse…