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February 25, 2025

We Replaced Families with Uncle Sam. DOGE Must Make the Right Choices When Cutting

…rate. More broadly, what we see is that children in single-mother families are four times more likely to be poor in Ohio than children in married families.  For DOGE, and…

February 25, 2025

Ohio Ranks Only 29th In The Family Structure Index

…be more family friendly. Given the importance of full-time work and regular schedules for parents, businesses should aim to transition more of their employees onto a regular, full-time schedule. Baby…

February 25, 2025

Go Fast, Break HR

…stretching out timelines because they can’t find the people to build and tailor the technology.  As in other cases of extreme shortage, technical leaders are relying on the “spot” market…

February 24, 2025

What Do You Call an Automatic Stabilizer that Doesn’t Shrink When Conditions Improve? The Biden Food Stamps Blowout

…but this time displaying SNAP recipients as a percentage of the US population. It similarly shows how, after an initial spike in response to the pandemic, the percentage of the…

February 24, 2025

A Glut of MBAs?

It’s all about the skills, not the credentials. You know the labor market times are changing when Harvard MBAs start showing up in the unemployment stories. According to a recent Wall…

February 24, 2025

AI and American Dynamism

…of AI adoption. Where AI causes job loss, a creative, flexible response to reskilling and retraining is necessary.  At the same time, we also need to pay attention to AI adoption and…

February 21, 2025

Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 2025

…Virtue (CCV) and the Institute for Family Studies (IFS). The index, which is based on trends in marriage, family stability, and fertility and is introduced for the first time in…

February 20, 2025

The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated

…Oren Cass claim that workers have endured “decades of stagnant wages.” Progressives typically agree, as when New York Times journalist David Leonhardt asserted in his recent book that, “For almost half a century now, incomes and…

February 18, 2025

Why So Blue: Liberal Women Are Less Happy, More Lonely. But Why?

…their conservative peers. Specifically, we found that 37% of conservative women reported being “completely satisfied” with life, whereas only 12% of liberal women did. Young conservative women are three times as likely…

February 18, 2025

Family-Friendly Policies for the 119th Congress

Key Points American birth rates have hit record lows, but Americans still say they want children. Family formation seems unattainable to many parents. There is no single federal policy that…