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October 10, 2023
The Best Place for Kids Isn’t Always Their Home
…march her to the bathroom for an ice-cold shower; she would then have to stand in a corner for the rest of the night. She’d be shivering and it would…
October 5, 2023
DCS Has Failed Children It Was Supposed to Protect, This Lawsuit Shows Why
…collection and monitoring and holding them accountable for minimum standards of care. These lawsuits focus on children in foster care because federal courts have held that individuals in state custody…
September 29, 2023
How Well Is Rural America Doing? You’d Be Surprised
…very much a cosmopolitan elite in good standing. But that’s just part of her story. She also grew up in Danville, Pennsylvania, a town of about 5,000 in the heart of…
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
…leveraging key educational and natural resource assets to promote new economic opportunities. Experts in addiction from AEI and Stanford talked about the causes of the regional opioid abuse crisis and…
August 21, 2023
Four Shocking Truths about the American Economy! (Well, Shocking to Some.)
…market income is a comprehensive measure of living standards that considers the impact of taxes and social transfers on people’s economic well-being — increased by 7 percent from 1990 to…
August 9, 2023
The AI Apocalypse Can Wait
…counterintuitively–disproportionately benefit lower-skilled workers. In April, a Stanford study of customer service workers at call centers found the use of AI boosted productivity and quickly brought low-skilled workers up to levels of…
July 18, 2023
The Great Recession, COVID-19, Interest Hikes Left a 15-Year Mark on Housing
…prices so high – during the last decade were interest rates that were very low by historical standards. As the Federal Reserve cut interest rates to fend off a recession…
January 3, 2023
Systemic Disadvantage
…reanalyzed it with two additional controls: number of loans with only one buyer — a rough stand-in for families with a single head of household — and Equifax Risk Score,…
February 23, 2022
The Case Against Universal Free Lunch
…that pregnant pigs be provided enough space to stand and turn around—a law that yielded histrionic headlines, such as “Bacon May Disappear in California.”12 I’d love to be proved wrong,…