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America is Still Working
Sometimes it seems like Americans can’t decide whether we work too much or too little. We hear that because of rising inequality and a lack of good jobs, workers must…
Op-Ed
Hurt Pennsylvania’s Workers to Win Pennsylvania’s Votes?
…jobs in industries that use steel intensively. U.S. Steel seems to agree. From the Post‘s article: U.S. Steel CEO David Burritt warned that the deal’s collapse would put at risk “thousands of…
Op-Ed
A Unified Theory of Education
…education. In the early 1900s, progressives sought to bureaucratize K-12 into what historian David Tyack termed “the one best system.” In the 1920s, Oregon progressives (along with the anti-Catholic Ku…
Op-Ed
Why Married Fathers Matter
…Billings and David Deming point to the effect that strict schools can have in elevating the odds that boys end up in prison — especially Black and Hispanic boys. Reeves points to the ways…
Op-Ed
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…
Op-Ed
A New Lost Generation: Disengaged, Aimless, and Adrift
…housebound, or to socialize. But as David Steiner, executive director of the Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and a former New York State education commissioner, points out, smartphones and…
Working Paper
Human Capital Spillovers and Health: Does Living Around College Graduates Lengthen Life?
Abstract Equally educated people are healthier if they live in more educated places. Every 10 percent point increase in an area’s share of adults with a college degree is associated…
Op-Ed
Awkward Truth: Subsidizing Women’s Work Drives Down Birthrates
…baby boom secret: Get women into work and ditch rigid family norms.” “Countries that have had a feminist revolution have the highest birth rates,” wrote David Willetts, a former British…
Op-Ed
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…
Op-Ed
Back from the brink: The intellectual tide is turning on marriage and civil society
…For instance, as David Leonhardt, a columnist at The New York Times, noted, “I think that my half of the political spectrum — the left half — often dismisses the importance…
Op-ed
What a New Report on 10 years of AI Research Reveals
‘Lifelong learning’ is not just a buzzword. It’s a necessity as artificial intelligence changes the workplace As artificial intelligence advances, the landscape of work may be undergoing a seismic shift. The economic potential of this emerging technology is staggering; many…
Op-Ed
Accountability Comes to Public Housing
…expectations,” Councilmember Sandy Nurse, whose district includes the project, told WNYC’s David Brand (who first reported Pinnacle’s dismissal). Socialist New York state senator Julia Salazar went further: “It’s even less…