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March 6, 2024
College or Trade School? How About Both?
…access to higher education and reaped the benefits in terms of higher GDP and living standards. Education, then, feeds human capital development, the complex mix of education, skills, and social connection on which free markets depend for growth. To…
March 5, 2024
A Conservative Vision for Education Reform
…the world of American education to be a remarkably left-leaning place. We see this in the ideological makeup of the higher education professoriate, the giving of big foundations, the public stances of…
February 29, 2024
Addressing the False Claims from Industry Groups on Pilot Testing SNAP Restrictions
…line, each group makes a variety of arguments for why they oppose the pilots. None of these reasons, however, stands up to much scrutiny. Hundreds of items in grocery stores…
February 20, 2024
The New Right’s Attack on Markets Is as Ignorant as the Old Left’s
…an extremely irritating stance, but that does not make it any less true. Free Markets > State Capitalism In contrast to the wealth that free markets have produced, Gregg argues,…
February 16, 2024
The Overlooked Benefits of Work-from-Home Opportunities
…market where their contributions add much to production, productivity, and living standards. Of course, there’s an important caveat. As the pandemic taught us, WFH is a luxury, usually confined to…
February 15, 2024
Sacred Sex
…from his life.” By contrast, Nick doesn’t “think there’s anything wrong morally” with viewing pornography. He consumes material that he “considers pretty vanilla, standard fare” and comes across as comfortable…
February 15, 2024
Conservatives Must Seize the Opportunity to Lead on Education. Here’s How…
Chaotic campuses rife with double standards about the kinds of speech that merit protection. A Biden administration determined to let student borrowers shrug off hundreds of billions in loans and stick taxpayers with the…
February 14, 2024
Four States That Are Leading the Charge for Conservative Education
…and critics. The final standards are unabashedly pro-American while leaning forthrightly into difficult and controversial topics. They address weighty themes while requiring more factual knowledge and specificity than previous standards,…
February 7, 2024
Solving Benefit Cliffs in SNAP
…amount (i.e., the lower the household’s net income, the higher the SNAP benefit). These deductions include a standard deduction ($198 for a family of three), earnings deduction (20 percent of…
February 7, 2024
The Past and Future of Education Reform
…adopting various Obama priorities. The most controversial of these would prove to be a new set of reading and math standards known as the Common Core State Standards. With the…