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Blog Post
Shopping for Colleges Just Got a Little Easier for Some Students
Shopping for college can be a nightmare. As the market for consumer products has gotten easier, more transparent, and faster than ever before (read: Amazon), the market for college degrees…
Op-Ed
How Well Is Rural America Doing? You’d Be Surprised
…miss the mark. The “deaths of despair” narrative is so embedded in our public discourse that rural America has, mostly in our imaginations, been transformed into a dystopia. But in the words of one of…
Op-Ed
How To Halt New York’s Ubiquitous Illegal Pot Blight
…violators at high-profile intersections — the squeegee guys gradually disappeared. The NYPD today has a much stronger hand to play in bringing order to the cannabis market — which the state…
Blog Post
A Bad Bipartisan Housing Bill: Connecting the Dots on the Helper Act
…2015, the country was already two and a half years into a seller’s market — generally defined as a market with less than a six-month supply of homes for sale…
Op-Ed
West Virginia Budget Cuts Are a Taste of Higher Ed’s Future
…labor market made it more attractive to move directly into the workforce instead of spending thousands and incurring debt to earn a degree. Mr. Gee highlighted these factors, along with…
Op-Ed
There’s an Easy Fix That Would Solve Our Housing Crisis: Light Touch Density
…of light-touch density (LTD) housing, allowing the market to build more affordable housing options for more Americans. The reason this is the solution to our housing crisis is simple: It…
Op-Ed
A Degree of Risk
…interested in the details, and there is less pressure on institutions of higher learning to perform. Discipline from the market can keep value high and prices low, ensuring that public…
Op-Ed
Tracking ‘two-parent privilege’ in Utah
…state does face educational challenges. Today, two challenges are especially noteworthy: Persistent gaps between less- and more-privileged children mark student performance, and too many students are not performing at levels considered proficient or better…
Op-Ed
Why Industrial Policy Fails
…scarce resources better than the market? If the government intervenes in markets, how will it avoid mission creep, cronyism, and corruption? In the real world, government planners simply lack the…
Op-Ed
The Privilege Hiding in Plain Sight
…has been viewed more than a staggering 125 million times. It captures another Privilege Walk, but in this case the personal attributes being presented are markedly different from those posed…
Op-Ed
Who Is Happiest? Married Mothers and Fathers, Per the Latest General Social Survey
…appear to be obstacles to living a happy life. Instead, these two traditional markers of adulthood are associated with a happier life. As difficult as marriage and parenthood can be,…
Commentary
Working from Home Has Increased More Modestly Than Many Believe
…about how many people are working from home today compared with before COVID. If they believe working from home has risen markedly, they may assume it is more permanent than…