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February 22, 2023
Unlocking the Future
…day: devastating learning loss among the nation’s K-12 students. Parents are angry, voting for change and telling pollsters they want more control over their children’s schools. But on education, as…
February 22, 2023
Unlocking the Future
…day: devastating learning loss among the nation’s K-12 students. Parents are angry, voting for change and telling pollsters they want more control over their children’s schools. But on education, as…
February 14, 2023
Brave New Technology
…recombine in unanticipated and unplanned ways. Much of this will be good, helpful, and reflective of the natural process of innovation. That’s one half of the 51–49 dilemma. The other…
February 14, 2023
Microsoft Is Getting Ready to Eat Google’s Lunch
…its assertions, some critics have labeled it a “bullshit generator” at least as it relates to natural language applications. But even with those limitations one could see this was a…
February 13, 2023
The Eerie Familiarity of California’s Boom-Bust Cycle
…(in today’s dollars) extracted over seven years when the annual gross national product was around $80 billion (also in today’s dollars)—rapidly expanded the nation’s capital base and paid enormous dividends…
February 8, 2023
Where the Tech Layoffs Are Hitting Hardest
…services, retail, and health care. The Bureau of Labor Statistics also went back to revise prior months’ numbers adding even more to the nation’s job total over the past 12…
January 24, 2023
“Gig,” Contract, and Nontraditional Workers
A recurring theme of the Workforce Futures Initiative has been how little we know about the evolving needs of workers and businesses or even how the nation’s spatially and numerically…
January 7, 2023
Personal Responsibility, Not Victimhood, Is the Path to Success
…schools. Such an approach has substantial public support. A recent study by Nat Malkus at the American Enterprise Institute suggests that the success sequence is quite popular among parents as well as…
January 3, 2023
Systemic Disadvantage
…America’s poor. Unfortunately, our polarized political environment creates incentive structures that encourage contending parties to double down on racial categories in order to motivate core constituencies. In a 50-50 nation,…
December 9, 2022
“Automatic Stimulus”: How It Would Have Increased the Record Unemployment Benefits Paid During the Great Recession and Pandemic
…payments whenever state or national unemployment rates are above specific thresholds. Examining a key “automatic stimulus” proposal reveals it would have greatly expanded the amount and duration of unemployment benefits…