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December 13, 2023
Stronger Families, Safer Streets
…family. Drawing on the work of scholars like Harvard sociologist Robert Sampson—who found that “(f)amily structure is one of the strongest, if not the strongest, predictors of … urban violence…
November 14, 2023
The Comeback City
…the process of change. Don’t expect it to take less than thirty years.”3 Read the full report. Sam Roberts, “Given New York Today, Could Anyone Lead It?,” New York Times,…
November 9, 2023
Child Support Policy: Areas of Emerging Agreement and Ongoing Debate
This paper will be delivered at the Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management 2023 Fall Research Conference. Abstract The Child Support Enforcement (CSE) system has a broad scope and provides…
October 31, 2023
Lawmakers Continue Trying to Revive Pandemic-Style Benefits
…totaled $118 billion—the equivalent of four regular years of state UI payments nationwide. Reviving PUA would contradict the testimony of Robert Asaro Angelo, New Jersey’s labor commissioner and a recent Democratic…
October 27, 2023
What Happened to the American Dream?
…Mills to Robert Bork and Barbara Jordan, whose ideas illuminate the larger transformations Leonhardt describes. The book’s argument belongs to a genre, reconsiderations of neoliberalism, that’s somewhat familiar by now…
October 24, 2023
Roanoke Atones for Urban Renewal—Artistically
Discussions of the ill effects of public housing, urban renewal, and urban freeways usually focus on big cities: the Chicago-lakefront hellhole called the Robert Taylor Homes, now-demolished; Robert Moses’s Cross-Bronx…
October 6, 2023
After a Banner Year for School Choice, the Challenge Is to Ensure New Programs Work
…to fare better? I can think of few who can speak more thoughtfully on this topic than Robert Enlow, the CEO and president of EdChoice (launched in 1995 as the…
September 22, 2023
Repairing the Damage Columbia’s Teachers College Did to American Kids Will Take Years
I’ve come to bury Lucy Calkins, not to praise her. Columbia University’s Teachers College announced this month what once seemed unthinkable: It’s “dissolving” its relationship with Calkins, sending the controversial literacy…
September 19, 2023
House Budget Plan Proposes Commonsense Welfare Changes
The House Budget Committee, headed by Chairman Jodey Arrington (R-TX), today released a draft budget proposal detailing the majority’s spending priorities and proposed changes across a range of government benefits and programs….
September 18, 2023
Students’ Lack of Basic Knowledge of US History and Civics Remains a National Embarrassment
A new study from a pair of Penn State researchers finds that passing the US Citizenship Test as a high school graduation requirement does nothing to improve youth voter turnout. Within the…