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February 20, 2025
The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated
…opinion also consistent with long-run trends in living standards and opportunity? According to populists on the right and left, Americans have seen meager income growth at best. National conservatives like…
February 18, 2025
Family-Friendly Policies for the 119th Congress
…the fundamental building block of a society, as the cell is of an organism. A nation with increasingly fewer families has less social cohesion and less of a future. Americans…
February 11, 2025
AI and the Future of Work Looks Bright
…to provide a clearer picture of evolving employment and skill demands. As the recent National Academies report on AI and work pointed out, this enhanced data, when combined with powerful new AI…
February 10, 2025
For Better: Four Proven Ways To A Strong And Stable Marriage
…nationally. His research found an astounding 30-percentage-point happiness gap between married and unmarried Americans. Although the research on the benefits of marriage is robust, it is also clear that the…
February 7, 2025
Follow Elon Musk’s USAID Model to Free Tenants from Public-Housing Hell
…manage. The first and best reason for exiting public housing is the condition of the projects themselves — and the ill effects on the supposed beneficiaries, the tenants. The nation’s…
February 7, 2025
Low-Performing Students Fall Farther Behind the Pack
On January 29, the National Assessment of Education Progress, NAEP, released results from its 2024 assessment. This latest installment of the self-styled “Nation’s Report Card” makes depressing reading. Indeed, if…
February 6, 2025
The Trump Administration is Already Proving to be Family Friendly
…families and family-specific difficulties, such as the accessibility of transportation to families with young children, and give preference to communities with marriage and birth rates higher than the national average,”…
February 4, 2025
Snip, Snip: Spending Cuts Are Coming
…foreseeable future. Just the interest on the debt totals almost $1 trillion per year, exceeding the cost of national defense. For Republicans, the underlying problem is simple: As Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent described in his…
February 3, 2025
Legislators Want to Give Tens of Millions of Free Lunches to Students Who Don’t Need Them
…important to understand what policies exist to help low-income families with children afford food. Wisconsin schools already provide free or reduced-price school meals to children with low incomes through the National…
January 30, 2025
American Greatness Depends on Strong Families
…moms and dads to afford to have kids,” recognizing national success not in terms of GDP but in “whether people feel that they can raise thriving and healthy families in…