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March 28, 2025
Unfreezing New York’s Projects
…broader real-estate market, the transformation promises more than a physical upgrade; it marks a cultural and economic shift. The plan echoes Jane Jacobs’s 1961 proposal in The Death and Life of…
March 27, 2025
The Looming Debt Crisis, the Trump Tax Cuts, and Medicaid
…mark was followed by eighteen years of declining debt-to-GDP levels. But today, we are facing ever-rising debt. By 2055, our national debt is projected to reach 154 percent of GDP,…
March 25, 2025
Reimagining Federal Education R&D: IES, Workforce Skills, and State Leadership
…what skills adults bring to the job market. Getting state-by-state results could help state leadership identify shortfalls in the skills of their adult population and develop programs and policies to…
March 24, 2025
Tax Abatements: The Best-Kept Secret to Revitalizing Struggling Communities—Without Spending Taxpayer Money
…combined, these reforms unleash American ingenuity and entrepreneurship, empowering builders of all sizes to deliver abundant, market-rate housing—boosting supply, reducing costs, and delivering real affordability over time. Read the full…
March 21, 2025
Increasing Financial Aid Isn’t the Solution to High College Costs
…the high underlying costs of college, such as reining in administrative bloat, limiting federal subsidies to high-cost colleges, and opening up the higher education market to more competition. If these policies bring tuition down, existing financial…
March 20, 2025
Homesteading 2.0: A Proposal to Make Housing Affordable Again
Across the Western US, rising home prices are slowing economic growth and stripping first-time homebuyers and middle-class families of homeownership opportunities. Commonsense, market-driven solutions to expand the housing supply are…
March 20, 2025
To Transform K-12 Education, the Trump Administration Should Measure What Matters
…other male legal guardian. “NAEP does collect family structure data and makes it available on the NAEP Data Explorer,” Mark Schneider, former director of the Institute of Education Sciences, told us….
March 19, 2025
What Can We Learn from Louisiana’s Progress in K–12 Education?
…p.m. Adjournment Related Content Low-Performing Students Fall Farther Behind the Pack Mark Schneider | Education Next | February 6, 2025 Louisiana’s Clarion Call: “Let Teachers Teach” Robert Pondiscio | AEIdeas | August 12, 2024…
March 19, 2025
AI and Jobs: Measuring Impact and Building New Assessment Tools
…University of Michigan, on how AI is shaping the labor market and workforce development policy. The conversation was moderated by Axios reporter Ashley Gold. The discussion centered on Anthropic’s latest…
March 18, 2025
Low-Rise Multifamily and Housing Supply: A Case Study of Seattle
…market-rate housing that promotes affordability. The key is to allow market forces to use by-right zoning to drive small-scale development, when also supported by clear and simplified regulatory frameworks. We…