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October 31, 2023
It Takes Two
…difference. They could adopt curriculums that emphasize the “success sequence,” as does the Vertex Partnership Academies network of charter schools founded by my American Enterprise Institute colleague, Ian Rowe. The success sequence…
October 27, 2023
What Happened to the American Dream?
…steady growth and low unemployment, but also of growth that was more widely shared than in much of the recent past — with the strongest improvement in median incomes since the 1990s, wage…
October 10, 2023
New White House Proposal to Further Alienate Religious Foster Parents
…motivated to do this work because of their faith. And more than 80% attribute their success in fostering to the support of their faith. As Jedd Medefind of the Christian…
October 5, 2023
Do 60 Percent Of American Workers Have Insecure Jobs?
…at least $40,000 in 2022. Not too different from American Compass. Incidentally, the median female worker in this group earned $45,000. American Compass has selected an initial criterion for job…
September 29, 2023
How Well Is Rural America Doing? You’d Be Surprised
…likely to say they are “pretty happy” with their lives (55.9 percent to 53.7 percent). On measure after measure—including median income, unemployment, and home ownership—Currid-Halkett’s research suggests rural America may be doing a…
September 18, 2023
No Culture Wars, Please, We’re Academics
…seeks to maintain her standing in her narrow world, Ian Rowe of the American Enterprise Institute has been going around the country trying to get schools to teach the “Success…
September 13, 2023
American Dreamers
…those most at risk of not achieving their full potential. Last March, VCW and AEI’s Academic Programs office convened the Appalachian Policy Summit, inviting students and professors for a weekend…
August 21, 2023
Four Shocking Truths about the American Economy! (Well, Shocking to Some.)
…to be contrarian just for the sake of being contrarian, I take a starkly different view on all of those issues. Time for some myth busting, Faster, Please! style! “The link between…
July 18, 2023
The Great Recession, COVID-19, Interest Hikes Left a 15-Year Mark on Housing
…Here’s the short answer: The Great Recession pushed down the number of mortgages in the region, and then COVID-19 pushed that number back up The median value of mortgages also…
January 3, 2023
Systemic Disadvantage
…mattered. “Libertarian fundamentalists” and “cosmopolitan elites” pushing deindustrialization, rather than “culture,” were deemed the headwaters of white poverty for the simple reason that it’s easier to claim victim status when…