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April 1, 2024
How Private Student Lending Can Repair Higher Education
Key Points Private student loans are a relatively small share of the market for higher education finance; however, scaling back the beleaguered federal student loan program would offer an opportunity…
February 9, 2024
The Upside of the College Enrollment Downswing
…than when they started. Research conducted by Preston Cooper, an economist and friend, shows that a large number of programs of study are not “paying off” for graduates. Surveying nearly 30,000 bachelor…
January 17, 2024
Tax Extenders Package Would Cut the Child Tax Credit’s Annual Work Requirement in Half
…and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) is notable for far more than its timing. On the plus side, and to the negotiators’ credit, it’s a rare example of bipartisan cooperation…
December 19, 2023
Sins of Omission: Public Broadcasting Fails to Reach a Broad Cross-Section of America
…the nation’s most important sources of charitable work. What are they doing, and why? I think here of Prestonwood Baptist Church, a Dallas megachurch with 40,000 members. It supports a program for…
December 18, 2023
The State of Democratic Capitalism: 2023
…on politics erodes. And the larger the role of the state in economic affairs, the smaller the role for voluntary cooperation among society as a whole. The voluntary nature of…
December 11, 2023
Has Inequality Made Americans Poorer than Bulgarians, Russians, and Filipinos?
…and in person by trained surveyors. As a result of the temporarily modified administration, fewer people cooperated when approached to participate in the survey. The response rate fell from 60…
December 8, 2023
Biden’s Even Worse Version of “Free College”
…taxpayer loan) or dropping out of college. As economist Preston Cooper has noted, “Given that 38 percent of students do not finish college and 54 percent of those that finish received Pell Grants,”…
November 27, 2023
How AI with “Theory of Mind” Could Help in the Workplace
…worker-training value. But advanced ToM technology might open up a whole new range of opportunities—from reading social situations and facial expressions to signaling our own intentions and cooperating with others—for workers who,…
November 9, 2023
Child Support Policy: Areas of Emerging Agreement and Ongoing Debate
…government costs. Finally, we outline areas of agreement and disagreement related to mandated cooperation with CSE. In this way, we aim to clarify both areas where bipartisan policy reforms may…
October 20, 2023
Value Needs to be the Next Buzzword in Higher Education
…decision-making. For our first panel, I was joined by Sarah Turner, professor and economist at the University of Virginia; Preston Cooper, Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Research on Equal…