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July 10, 2023
Reforming the EITC to Reduce Single Parenthood and Ease Work-Family Balance
…combined work if they wish to have one parent spend more time caring for the children. Consider a married couple with two children where, as above, one parent makes $20,000…
July 8, 2023
Why the End of Affirmative Action Is Good for Black Science Students
…that overall UC graduation rates improved among black and Hispanic kids. (Perhaps that’s why a much-discussed New York Times story from this past weekend looking at the use of “adversity scores”…
July 7, 2023
With Affirmative Action Gone, We Should Focus Admissions Policies on Poverty
…Antonin Scalia’s analysis of the “Lemon test” that used to govern religious freedom jurisprudence, race-conscious policies are like a character in a horror movie: no matter how many times courts (and voters)…
July 6, 2023
The End of Affirmative Action Calls for a Renewed Conservatism of Opportunity
…elite positions—many of them striving first-time college enrollees, hard-working grinders who overcame underperforming schools, or fresh-faced young adults playing by the rules and pursuing their American Dream. Those benefits flowed…
July 3, 2023
Child Welfare’s Ideological Enforcer
…on social media, where he spends his time attacking rigorous academic research, encouraging social media mobs to insult others in the field, and even demanding that journals stop publishing work…
July 2, 2023
New York’s Quality of Life Budget: Focus on Improving Conditions for Everyday People First
…composting, the time has come for the city to develop a “quality of life” budget — one that emphasizes clean and safe streets, schools that truly educate, reliable public transit…
June 30, 2023
Democrats Call Biden’s Economy “Savage” in Attempt to Revive Child Tax Credit
…fact that weekly COVID-19 deaths were 10 times current levels and unemployment was significantly higher than today. One testified that, in contrast to 2021, too many families are now “struggling to make ends meet” and “inequities…
June 30, 2023
The U.S. Could Learn a Lot from This School in the U.K.
…vast majority of children assigned by zip codes to public schools, the time is now in states such as Florida, Arizona, and a half dozen others that have demonstrated both…
June 30, 2023
It’s Time to End Legacy Admissions
…legacy admissions. Republican senator and presidential candidate Tim Scott told an interviewer Thursday that he welcomed the Court’s decision, but he added that “one of the things that Harvard could do to…
June 29, 2023
Investing in Ideas, Influencing Policy: A Guide to Think Tank Effectiveness
…working in coalitions or making supportive interest groups aware of findings at the appropriate time. Impact and politics: Including the decision of if and when to compromise. Read more here….