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March 20, 2025
To Transform K-12 Education, the Trump Administration Should Measure What Matters
…the role of race or ethnicity. Put simply: Family structure matters, likely more than any other factor for a child’s development. As Melissa Kearney explains in her book, children who grow…
March 17, 2025
Trump Should Put an End to Rent Control
…in rent-regulated units earn more than $100,000 annually. As a practical matter, owners have an incentive to rent to higher-income tenants to ensure rents, even if low, will at least…
March 12, 2025
Why Alabama Needs The Success Sequence
…family stability (the share of teens raised in an intact family). This matters because states with higher levels of stability have better outcomes for children, such as higher educational attainment and…
March 11, 2025
The American Dream in Ohio depends on stronger Buckeye families
…below-average standing matters because strong, stable families are a powerful predictor of upward mobility. Harvard economist Raj Chetty and his colleagues at Opportunity Insights have underscored the connection between upward…
March 11, 2025
Democrats’ DOGE Delusions
While occupied with budget bills to keep the government open and set future spending and tax levels, Congress is also cleaning up past messes. Today, the House is expected to…
March 10, 2025
Many Children Left Behind: The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress Results Indicate a Five-Alarm Fire
…“Students reaching [proficiency] have demonstrated competency over challenging subject matter, including subject-matter knowledge, application of such knowledge to real world situations, and analytical skills appropriate to the subject matter.”3 For example,…
March 6, 2025
America’s New Frontier of Opportunity and Inclusion
…broken immigration system, though neither seems likely to provide short- and medium-term relief for worker shortages. As a matter of national interest, we simply must get more out of our…
February 27, 2025
The GOP Is Still the Pro-Marriage Party
…to educate the new arrivals to the party how much marriage still matters. Strong marriages benefit Republicans. More importantly, they benefit all Americans. In fact, because marriage has lost ground…
February 25, 2025
We Replaced Families with Uncle Sam. DOGE Must Make the Right Choices When Cutting
…own approach to family formation, he doesn’t seem to appreciate how much marriage matters for our kids and our country. In order to protect these children from poverty and…
February 24, 2025
What Do You Call an Automatic Stabilizer that Doesn’t Shrink When Conditions Improve? The Biden Food Stamps Blowout
…of us (Weidinger) explained in a March 2023 Wall Street Journal oped, “In July 2022, when California’s unemployment rate reached a record low of 3.9%, its food-stamp caseload reached a…