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June 8, 2023

Work Improves Mental Health

…and employment statuses, displaying the share of each group that reported feeling hopeless or worthless in the past month using data from the National Health Interview Survey. As made clear…

June 8, 2023

Oklahoma Has Approved the Nation’s First Religious Charter School. What’s That Mean?

…and nature of the regulations in parental-choice programs will shape the extent and nature of the landscape of parental choice: If regulators continue to tread lightly, hopefully, most private schools…

June 7, 2023

The Price We’ll Pay for Our AI Future: More Loneliness

…and the Hasbro toy company were awarded a $1 million National Science Foundation grant to develop AI pets to help seniors with everyday tasks, such as remembering to take medication. My colleague…

June 7, 2023

How ‘Negativity Bias’ Skews the Conversation About Artificial Intelligence

…almost always depresses us much more below the ordinary level or what may be called the natural state of our happiness than the latter ever raises us above it.” Since…

June 7, 2023

The Price We’ll Pay For Our AI Future: More Loneliness

…ways, especially for people who face challenges that limit more traditional social opportunities. Brown University and the Hasbro toy company were awarded a $1 million National Science Foundation grant to develop AI…

June 2, 2023

America’s Failing Child-Protection System

…basically fatherless homes where the mothers were overwhelmed and relying on the priests for help.” There were approximately 60,000 substantiated incidents of child sexual abuse nationwide in 2021, the most…

May 31, 2023

Ending the Small Checks Scam

…the introduction of California’s small checks scheme caused “more than half (54%)” of the apparent increase in the national TANF program’s work rate from 2013 to 2015. CRS reports that work rate…

May 31, 2023

Children Are Dead Because Activists Say It’s Racist for ACS to Act

…17 percent higher than the citywide average.” Never mind that the average caseload nationwide is between 24 and 31 children. Or that it is well beneath the Child Welfare League…

May 30, 2023

Interest in Democratic Values is High Outside Urban Cores

…less dense areas with more privacy, it is widely believed that they will naturally start to isolate themselves from the wider public, impoverishing the public sphere. Fortunately, these concerns are…

May 26, 2023

The Power of the Success Sequence

…when they reach adulthood. The link remains strong when this cohort of young Americans reaches their mid-30s, according to a new IFS analysis of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth…