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November 28, 2022
Public School Instructional Offerings and Enrollment Changes: Evidence from Two Years After the Pandemic
…school year, there was large heterogeneity in how districts reopened.4 Some districts opened by offering all students full-time in-person instruction, others offered in-person instruction for some grades or part of the…
November 17, 2022
American Renewal: Launching a New Conservative Policy Book with Paul Ryan and Angela Rachidi
…mediating institutions fraying, debt soaring, and inflation rising in the post-pandemic era, now is the time for policymakers to act—to renew the social contract and place our government programs on…
September 30, 2022
Off Track: An Assessment of Wisconsin’s Early Care and Learning System for Young Children
Preface Raising children, as can be fully appreciated only after you’ve done it, takes place in real time. They eat, sleep and grow whether you’re ready or not. So as…
August 30, 2022
Biden’s Student Loan Debt Plan is Driven by Politics, Not Economics
…could be. But the cutoff, $125,000 for individuals, means that borrowers earning three times the median income in the United States are still eligible for this giveaway. More important, the plan delivers…
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…
May 26, 2022
Realizing the Dream: What Does the Success Sequence Have to Do with the Economic Welfare of Black and Hispanic Young Adults?
…effectively communicate the value of marriage to the rising generation. —Josh Barker Event Description The success sequence—earning at least a high school degree, working full-time, and marrying before childbearing—is a…
January 3, 2022
Dynamism as a Public Philosophy
…its propensity to deliver socio-economic security, but on its regard for individual liberty. What began on the right as a criticism of the excesses of Rawlsianism has evolved in our time…
November 16, 2021
The Changing Face of Social Breakdown
…in America, and what we take to be the obstacles to human flourishing in our time. This different understanding isn’t quite new either, but it is often left implicit, so…
July 2, 2021
Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
…time nearly impossible, and SPM threshold adjustments for geography and housing tenure are counterproductive. The SPM’s shortcomings cause it to identify a less economically disadvantaged poverty population than alternative poverty…
June 10, 2021
Long Shadows: The Black-White Gap in Multigenerational Poverty
…experience of one in five Black adults. Black adults in their 30s are over 16 times more likely than Whites are to have had both a parent and grandparent in…