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April 19, 2024

The New Deal’s Failed Kibbutz in the Desert

At the height of the New Deal, with the Social Security Act, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Civilian Conservation Corps already enacted, the Roosevelt Administration’s Farm Security Administration…

April 18, 2024

The Real Story Behind Food Insecurity in the US

…Christian Gregory recently found that most food insecure individuals “consume enough (or even too many) calories.” And research by Craig Gundersen and David Ribar found that most of those who spend the least on…

April 18, 2024

Back from the brink: The intellectual tide is turning on marriage and civil society

…often have discounted the importance of the nation’s houses of worship. One recent New Yorker article, for instance, suggested faith left Christian men tortured by “guilt and shame that makes…

April 9, 2024

Child Abandonment in the Name of Compassion

A self-described libertarian friend once described to me the feeling she had when it was time to leave the hospital with her newborn baby. She remembered looking at the nurse…

April 8, 2024

The $1,000 Tax Hike on Middle-Class Families

…barely keeping up with inflation, who are raising three kids on $75,000 per year (the median U.S. household income), will be asked to kick in almost $1,000 more to the federal government…

April 5, 2024

The US Is Failing Substance-Exposed Infants

…Testing, Social Work Assessment and Custody at 5 Hospitals,” Academic Pediatrics 23, no. 6 (August 2023): 1268–75, https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36754165; and Sebastian Schoneich et al., “Incidence of Newborn Drug Testing and Variations by…

April 3, 2024

The Fearless Fund, DEI, and Attacks on Philanthropic Freedom

…its Fearless Foundation, is racially discriminatory because provides $20,000 prizes exclusively to Black women entrepreneurs. Just as it sued on behalf of Asian students in the Students for Fair Admissions vs….

March 27, 2024

Perspectives on Place-Based Policy: Strategies for Workforce and Economic Development

Opportunity varies by place in the US, with the lowest levels of opportunity in states in the former Confederacy and American Indian reservations. Rural America faces unique challenges in relative…

March 25, 2024

Families Slip Back Into Poverty After Pandemic-Era Child Tax Credit Expires

…clothes, water, gas. Amna Nawaz: Providing for 13-year-old Whitnee (ph), 5-year-old Rowen (ph), and 3-year-old twins Trinitee (ph) and Legaciee (ph) in their hometown of Ville Platte, Louisiana, is a…

March 21, 2024

It’s Not Just Minority Neighborhoods—NYC’s Entire Property-Tax System Needs Reform

…if they’re rental properties. Small rental buildings in The Bronx are valued more highly than those in Brooklyn. Median assessed home values in Manhattan are lower than those in the…