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December 6, 2022
Fixing Our Child Welfare System to Help America’s Most Vulnerable Kids
…different corners of this field, Congress should committo creating a stronger and smarter child welfare system—one that puts the needs ofthe nation’s most vulnerable population first.Read the full report here….
November 28, 2022
Public School Instructional Offerings and Enrollment Changes: Evidence from Two Years After the Pandemic
Key Points Enrollment numbers in the first two pandemic school years demonstrate that district instructional offerings influence families’ enrollment decisions and that these effects were more pronounced in the second…
September 21, 2022
Lessons from the Unprecedented Fraud and Abuse of the Unemployment Benefits System During the Pandemic
…served on the staff of the House Committee on Ways and Means, including for 15 years as the staff director of its subcommittee with jurisdiction over the nation’s unemployment benefits…
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…