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August 8, 2025
The One Big Beautiful Bill Includes Conservative Welfare Reforms Worth Expanding
Republicans have plenty to tout in their One Big Beautiful Bill (OBBB), including its extension of the 2017 Trump tax cuts, improved border security, and strengthened national defense. . .But…
August 8, 2025
A win for Wisconsin families: Childcare in the 2025-2027 biennial state budget
…matter and cannot fit into a one-size-fits-all regulatory approach. Beyond child-to-staff ratios, evidence shows that many other regulatory requirements such as teacher education and regulating naps and toys, while well-intentioned,…
August 8, 2025
Revise the Messenger
…Numbers were massively revised DOWNWARD, making a correction of over 818,000 Jobs — A TOTAL SCAM. Let’s stipulate that the three operational breaches in question were serious matters. Moreover, the…
July 30, 2025
Is Marriage Back? Divorce Is Down, Family Stability Is Up
…to the idea that marriage matters. Even more importantly, major shifts in family behavior are underway that indicate marriage is strengthening as the primary anchor of family life. Divorce is…
July 24, 2025
Divorce In Decline: About 40% Of Today’s Marriages Will End In Divorce
…isn’t to say we can’t use older generations to project into the future. Indeed, that’s all we can really do. But it is to say that marriage cohorts matter, and…
July 17, 2025
Even after the One Big Beautiful Bill, Loopholes Allow Illegal Alien Adults to Receive Welfare and Other Benefits
One major set of policies Republicans touted in their One Big Beautiful Bill (now officially Public Law 119-21, signed on July 4, 2025) sought to end government benefit payments to…
July 1, 2025
More Information Sharing Means Fewer Taxpayer Losses to Fraud
Last month, Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-TX) introduced a resolution of inquiry objecting to the Trump administration’s development of a “centralized database” that “compiles American citizens’ personal information across federal agencies and departments.”…
June 25, 2025
De-Skilling the Knowledge Economy
…matter of poor methodologies or lack of investigation than it is a product of limitations on available data combined with how unpredictably a quickly evolving general-purpose technology like AI is…
June 24, 2025
Public Housing and Rental Subsidies
…advocates usually make matters worse when they try to ban the conditions that offend them. By insisting on extensive housing regulatory standards that drive up housing prices beyond the means…
June 16, 2025
The ‘Father Divide’ and What it Means for Our Kids
…matter less to dads than to moms, a new report on the impact fathers have on their kids suggests we shouldn’t underestimate how much dads matter. “Good Fathers, Flourishing Kids:…