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September 14, 2023
The Privilege Hiding in Plain Sight
…life prospects of children — far more than the usually invoked suspects of race and gender. According to Kearney, in 2019, “77% of white children and 88% of Asian children…
August 21, 2023
Four Shocking Truths about the American Economy! (Well, Shocking to Some.)
…to be contrarian just for the sake of being contrarian, I take a starkly different view on all of those issues. Time for some myth busting, Faster, Please! style! “The link between…
August 17, 2023
The ‘Utah Family Miracle’ and Why It Matters
…economic mobility, child poverty and median family income than are the education level, racial makeup and age composition of its population.” Likewise, Harvard economist Raj Chetty and his colleagues found…
August 14, 2023
Keep the Utah Family Miracle Going Strong
…typically a stronger predictor of the state’s economic mobility, child poverty, and median family income than are the education level, racial makeup, and age composition of its population.” Likewise, Harvard…
August 12, 2023
Why Ending Child Services Is the New Defund the Police
…lectured public servants about why it should be eradicated. There are few people, including this author, who would argue that the child welfare system doesn’t need reform. But the utopian…
August 10, 2023
The Real Reason People Leave Religion
…to explain America’s cross-cultural religious decline. There’s simply not much evidence that hyper-involved parents are taking kids out of bible study to enroll them in Russian math classes. The question remains:…
August 5, 2023
Rent Control ‘Shabbifying’ NY’s Housing As Owners Feel the Squeeze
…disappeared. The difference between median regulated rents ($1,400) and unregulated rents ($1,825) is not nearly as great as protestors would have folks think. And the rising vacancy rate suggests market…
August 4, 2023
The Racial Wealth Gap: Myths and Realities
…result, he concluded, “What this shows is that 97 percent of the overall racial wealth gap is driven by households above the median of each racial group.” Indeed, over two-thirds…
August 3, 2023
Fight Crime, and Poverty, with Civil Society
…County, in particular, has a much higher crime rate than the national average, and crime has been rising since the COVID lockdowns, which were extraordinarily draconian in PG County. Moore…
July 30, 2023
26 Miles of Scaffolding Blights NYC’s Public Housing, Some Up for 10 Years
No New York pedestrian would disagree with Eric Adam’s characterization of the city’s ubiquitous sidewalk sheds at stalled construction sites as “ugly little green boxes.” But his targeting of private…