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America is Still Working
…using IPUMS microdata. (See Steven Ruggles, Sarah Flood, Matthew Sobek, Daniel Backman, Annie Chen, Grace Cooper, Stephanie Richards, Renae Rodgers, and Megan Schouweiler. IPUMS USA: Version 15.0 [dataset]. Minneapolis, MN:…
Op-Ed
A Unified Theory of Education
…can too readily unravel the informal ties among people that develop organically through private cooperation and community endeavors. None of this presumes malice or malfeasance; it’s just that government programs…
Journal Publication
Child Support Policy: Areas of Emerging Agreement and Ongoing Debate
…for cost recovery; collected child support should always directly benefit children, not offset government costs. Finally, we outline areas of agreement and disagreement related to mandated cooperation with CSE. In…
Op-Ed
The Economic World We’ve Lost
…more damage, especially if he were to pull the US out of NATO. More than just defense is at stake. International security alliances and global economic cooperation foster peace and…
Blog Post
Holding out Hope for a Left-Right Consensus on Federal Student Lending
…Earlier this month, the Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity’s (FREOPP) Preston Cooper and Beth hosted a webinar to discuss a recent report the three of us co-authored on the potential for expanding the…
Op-Ed
The Federal Student Loan Program Is Unraveling
The Biden administration recently announced its most ambitious attempt yet at student debt forgiveness. Taken together with the series of initiatives the administration has already pushed forward, the new plans promise to reduce or eliminate student debt for…
Blog Post
The New Deal’s Failed Kibbutz in the Desert
…position on industrial farms” and that “our experiment in cooperative farming has an excellent chance of success.” By 1944, the operation had been financially liquidated, having proven to be more…
Blog Post
Feds Should Take a Big Step Back on Student Loans
…colleges to precipitously raise costs. These are just some of the reasons why I argue, in a new paper out this week with Preston Cooper and Joe Pitts that we need to…
Report
How Private Student Lending Can Repair Higher Education
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Op-Ed
The Upside of the College Enrollment Downswing
…than when they started. Research conducted by Preston Cooper, an economist and friend, shows that a large number of programs of study are not “paying off” for graduates. Surveying nearly 30,000 bachelor…
Blog Post
Tax Extenders Package Would Cut the Child Tax Credit’s Annual Work Requirement in Half
…and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-OR) is notable for far more than its timing. On the plus side, and to the negotiators’ credit, it’s a rare example of bipartisan cooperation…
Op-Ed
Sins of Omission: Public Broadcasting Fails to Reach a Broad Cross-Section of America
…the nation’s most important sources of charitable work. What are they doing, and why? I think here of Prestonwood Baptist Church, a Dallas megachurch with 40,000 members. It supports a program for…