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July 7, 2023
…people have a diversity that reflects the country. The nation’s history of slavery and racial discrimination will never be “over” in a final sense, and affirmative action has been useful…
July 6, 2023
…It also did little to help those African Americans, Latinos, and Native Americans (not to mention whites and Asian Americans) who failed to complete high school or graduated unprepared for…
July 3, 2023
…problems with the data used in Briggs’s analysis. They noted that the reliance on the National Child Abuse and Neglect Data System (NCANDS) created some of the problems. “NCANDS variables…
July 2, 2023
…residents, rich and poor. Economists from the NYU Stern School, Columbia Business School and the National Bureau of Economic Research have set the context: declining commercial real estate property taxes…
June 30, 2023
…trumpet their commitment to the family could at least make sure their family bill doesn’t penalize our nation’s most fundamental institution: marriage. Is there a better way forward? Thankfully, there…
June 30, 2023
Last month, I took advantage of a trip to the U.K. to spend a day observing at London’s legendary Michaela School, which serves about 800 students ages eleven to 18, a…
June 30, 2023
The Supreme Court’s decision in the UNC and Harvard cases was received, as most news is these days, in two quite different ways on the two sides of our political…
June 28, 2023
…Harvard economist David Deming shows that college education remains a worthwhile investment for long-term economic returns. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Deming…
June 28, 2023
…orthogonal to the national economic and defense security goal of boosting chipmaking here at home even as they risk making that goal harder to achieve. I mean, what happened to…
June 27, 2023
…than 50 percent national caseload decline following the 1996 reforms, meant that within a few years the average state had effectively no work requirement. So lawmakers included a simple update to the caseload reduction credit in the 2006 Deficit…