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September 23, 2024
Toward a Potential Grand Bargain for the Nation
…Democracy commissioned subject matter experts—progressives, centrists, and conservatives—to develop a “Grand Bargain” encompassing all six issues. The policy debate typically puts these problems into silos, and within each silo, powerful…
September 20, 2024
Don’t Believe the Doomsayers. The American Dream Is Still In Reach for Young People
…gaps remain. While a person’s race matters increasingly less, there are community level characteristics whose absence or presence more directly drive individual prospects of upward or downward mobility. Indeed, this…
September 17, 2024
The Blue State Family Exodus: Families Are Migrating to Red and Purple States
…(or at least inoffensive and effective public schools) matters more to parents than free school lunches. And, to be frank, most parents object to policies that force their daughters to face biological…
September 12, 2024
Surgeon general’s dour picture of parenthood misses the mark
…and acknowledges that it matters not only to individuals but all of society. He also notes that the well-being of parents is linked to children’s mental health, and that we…
September 11, 2024
Doing Right by Kids: A Book Event
…more than ever, the Manhattan Institute’s Kay S. Hymowitz advocated for increased workforce and apprenticeship training for working-class men, and AEI’s Matt Weidinger described some of the safety net’s perverse…
September 10, 2024
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:…
September 9, 2024
The Nanny State Is Not the Answer to Parents’ Challenges
…solutions could make matters worse. Murthy comes to us as a father himself, who says the work of parenting is “sacred.” He describes the stress not only of finding child…
September 5, 2024
Hurt Pennsylvania’s Workers to Win Pennsylvania’s Votes?
…preparing to announce that he will formally block Nippon Steel’s proposed $14.9 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel, according to three people with knowledge of the matter, who spoke on the…
August 29, 2024
The Distribution of Social Capital across Individuals and its Relationship to Income
…measure of income. We find that social capital increases with income but at a decreasing rate. The source of income matters, as an extra $10,000 in market income is associated…
August 29, 2024
Kamala Harris Wants to Turn the Tax Code into a Mammoth ATM
Given her liberal record, it’s no surprise that Vice President Kamala Harris’s recently released economic agenda calls for vast increases in benefits for low-income adults. But it should be surprising for that…