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March 27, 2024
Perspectives on Place-Based Policy: Strategies for Workforce and Economic Development
Opportunity varies by place in the US, with the lowest levels of opportunity in states in the former Confederacy and American Indian reservations. Rural America faces unique challenges in relative…
March 19, 2024
Conservatives Distrust Higher Ed—But Still Need Degrees
…college. This assertion can be especially damaging for rural and Republican-dominated areas of the country that stand to lose the most by abandoning higher education. Residents of these areas are…
March 7, 2024
Growing Congressional Dysfunction Will Worsen Our Fiscal Problems
…legislative capacity on the Hill. Congress is losing the sort of policy-making veterans it needs to craft and pass important legislation. Their reasons for leaving vary and often include Congress’s general inability to pass needed legislation. That dysfunction is evident in Congress’s long-standing failure to…
February 15, 2024
Conservatives Must Seize the Opportunity to Lead on Education. Here’s How…
Chaotic campuses rife with double standards about the kinds of speech that merit protection. A Biden administration determined to let student borrowers shrug off hundreds of billions in loans and stick taxpayers with the…
February 14, 2024
Four States That Are Leading the Charge for Conservative Education
…and critics. The final standards are unabashedly pro-American while leaning forthrightly into difficult and controversial topics. They address weighty themes while requiring more factual knowledge and specificity than previous standards,…
February 7, 2024
The Past and Future of Education Reform
…adopting various Obama priorities. The most controversial of these would prove to be a new set of reading and math standards known as the Common Core State Standards. With the…
January 29, 2024
Let’s Not Turn the Child Tax Credit Into Welfare
…Congress is far from guaranteed. Some Democrats believe the reforms don’t go far enough to assist poor children, while some Republicans have expressed concerns about relaxing work requirements and increasing spending. As it stands…
January 21, 2024
Portland’s Encampment Kids
I’m standing outside the Central Police Precinct in downtown Portland, Oregon. Officer Eli Arnold and I have bicycled over to meet two of his colleagues, returned from a drug bust….
January 11, 2024
Biden’s Dismantling of Federal Student Loan Programs Has Inspired Republicans to Go Big
…legislation, the Act would create a standardized financial aid offer form for university use, so that students can compare apples to apples. This might be a surprising push coming from…
December 18, 2023
The State of Democratic Capitalism: 2023
…a century if successful. It would switch the baseline standard against which the level of competition in a market is measured. The “big is bad” standard judges competition by the…