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February 25, 2025
We Replaced Families with Uncle Sam. DOGE Must Make the Right Choices When Cutting
…own approach to family formation, he doesn’t seem to appreciate how much marriage matters for our kids and our country. In order to protect these children from poverty and…
February 24, 2025
What Do You Call an Automatic Stabilizer that Doesn’t Shrink When Conditions Improve? The Biden Food Stamps Blowout
…of us (Weidinger) explained in a March 2023 Wall Street Journal oped, “In July 2022, when California’s unemployment rate reached a record low of 3.9%, its food-stamp caseload reached a…
February 21, 2025
Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 2025
…this report, indicates that the state falls below average on key indicators of family strength. Ohio’s below-average standing on the Family Structure Index matters because this report will show how…
February 20, 2025
The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated
…must also accuse everyday Americans of having lyin’ eyes. Equating the American Dream with Absolute Mobility Is a Mistake A final note: it’s true that no matter what the measure,…
February 18, 2025
Why So Blue: Liberal Women Are Less Happy, More Lonely. But Why?
…most thoughtful interpreters—like Jonathan Haidt, Jean Twenge, and Matthew Yglesias—of this ideological divide in the emotional well-being of young women have pointed to the role that “catastrophizing” thinking has played…
February 7, 2025
Follow Elon Musk’s USAID Model to Free Tenants from Public-Housing Hell
…Rental Assistance Demonstration program, can help — but doesn’t rid the system of its lure to long-term dependency. The fact of the matter is that government should not be in…
February 7, 2025
Low-Performing Students Fall Farther Behind the Pack
…including subject-matter knowledge, application of such knowledge to real-world situations, and analytical skills appropriate to the subject matter.” Grade 4 students reaching the proficient level should be able to describe…
February 6, 2025
The Trump Administration is Already Proving to be Family Friendly
…thriving and healthy families in our country.” Vance himself is dedicated to pushing for a major expansion of the child tax credit for working families when Congress takes up the matter later…
February 4, 2025
Snip, Snip: Spending Cuts Are Coming
Republicans’ agenda of cutting taxes and increasing spending on their policy priorities depends significantly on identifying productive spending reductions. But just cutting spending will not be enough. Republicans must also…
January 30, 2025
American Greatness Depends on Strong Families
…comes to that classic American ideal, “the pursuit of happiness.” Yet we know that nothing matters more to making that destination possible than renewing the fortunes of marriage and family life. No…