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August 30, 2022
Biden’s Student Loan Debt Plan is Driven by Politics, Not Economics
…will need in the coming election cycles to maintain any power in national politics. The fairness and the naked political ambition behind the plan are reason enough to object to…
August 10, 2022
A Failure to Respond: Public School Mask Mandates in the 2021–22 School Year
Key Points From September 2021 to late February 2022, school district mask mandates were in place for 61 percent of students in the US.During that period, Centers for Disease Control…
June 15, 2022
Second Time’s the Charm?
…both pro-family policy and the sustained reduction of poverty, but the nature of Romney’s approach forced hard choices and brought some differing assumptions to the surface. At the time, the…
February 23, 2022
The Case Against Universal Free Lunch
…breakfast and lunch. That struck me as natural and beautiful. Parents have a primal drive to provide food for their children. But parents are also sensitive and responsive to the…
January 3, 2022
Dynamism as a Public Philosophy
…a central role. Indigenous innovation, as economist Gylfi Zoega puts it, is “the continuous creation of new ideas” within a nation that spreads throughout many aspects of that nation’s economic and social…
November 16, 2021
The Changing Face of Social Breakdown
…poorest nations on the planet. And even if we do try to explain the problem in an American dialect, its causes add up to a kind of multifarious portrait of…
October 19, 2021
The Divided State of Our Unions
…pandemic also seems to have heightened differences between Americans when it comes to interest in forming families. As the pandemic lifts, the nation is likely to see a deepening divide…
July 2, 2021
Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
…a National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) panel formed to evaluate and recommend improvements to the SPM. To inform the NASEM panel and the debate on poverty measurement…
June 10, 2021
Long Shadows: The Black-White Gap in Multigenerational Poverty
…the civil rights victories of the 1960s, racial gaps in poverty and opportunity remain a cause for national shame. Three-generation poverty occurs among one in 100 Whites but describes the…
April 19, 2021
The Role of Community in Place-based Giving
…other and with people who have a natural interest in helping them is a better giving strategy than is relying on an outcomes-focused, top-down approach. Specifically, community-minded funders could focus…