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June 2, 2023
America’s Baby Bust Is Back on Track
America’s birthrate has been falling steadily since the Great Recession 15 years ago, and the brief uptick of 2021 proved to be a statistical blip, as new birth data show…
June 2, 2023
America’s Failing Child-Protection System
…Stoner, to live with them. He beats Demon, locks him in his room for days at a time, and makes him scrub the floors with bleach until he practically passes…
June 1, 2023
Will Chat Tech Help the Neuro-Divergent Find Their Place in Society?
…with AI chat coaches rose by 14 percent (35 percent among the least skilled workers), turnover went down, and training time fell by half. Fewer calls were “escalated” to managers…
May 31, 2023
Ending the Small Checks Scam
…in virtually no savings—a paltry $6 million over the coming decade, in a program expected to spend $165 billion in just federal funds during that time. As Roll Call headlined, those relatively small savings made…
May 31, 2023
Children Are Dead Because Activists Say It’s Racist for ACS to Act
…the result of an agency that is stretched too thin. According to the New York Times, that neighborhood’s “caseworkers have an average load of 12.5 cases, ACS said — about…
May 30, 2023
Parenting While High
…We are not addressing this problem. To begin with, states have faced growing pressure to stop testing mothers and infants for drugs at the time of birth. Even when drug testing does…
May 27, 2023
How Newborns Are Becoming Victims of Legalized Marijuana Use
…this mother’s problems after all. As more states legalize drug use, child welfare agencies are having a harder time detecting when such usage puts children in harm’s way — and…
May 26, 2023
The Power of the Success Sequence
…The formula involves three steps: get at least a high school education, work full time, and marry before having children. Among Millennials who followed this sequence, 97% are not poor…
May 26, 2023
The Size and Census Coverage of the U.S. Homeless Population
…Community Survey (ACS), to restricted Homeless Management Information System (HMIS) data, HUD’s public-use point-in-time (PIT) estimates, and the Housing Inventory Count (HIC) at the national and individual level. We also…
May 24, 2023
Don’t Be So Shocked That People Still Want Marriage and Children
Four writers at Curbed, the millennial-run, New York-centric real estate site, undertook an ambitious project. To put a price tag on living in New York, they asked young people to describe their…