Why Is DC’s Medicaid Program So Expensive?
October 16, 2026 | Stan Veuger
My previous two posts provided an overview of the District’s federal funding and compared it...
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Opportunity Book
Browse federal policy recommendations from COSM scholars and affiliates focused on expanding opportunity.
Land of Opportunity
A policy handbook that assesses the state of the American Dream and offers practical policy solutions to strengthen opportunity and prosperity in the United States. By strengthening economic growth, expanding opportunity, and restoring the social foundations of family, work, and community, the book argues that we can renew the promise of the American Dream for future generations.
Workforce Futures Initiative
A research collaboration between the American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, and the Project on Workforce at Harvard Kennedy School’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy.
FREE Initiative
An initiative to educate people, communities, and institutions around the country about how to promote a sense of agency among our nation’s youth, and to partner with them in this effort. We are building a national movement predicated primarily upon local and community action.
Lives Cut Short
A project to document child maltreatment fatalities.
America's Rural Future
A bipartisan endeavor with a shared mission to enable rural prosperity in the 21st century by strengthening economic opportunity, resilience, and quality of life across rural America.
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American Renewal
A Conservative Plan to Strengthen the Social Contract and Save the Country’s Finances.
Edited by Paul Ryan and Angela Rachidi
Doing Right By Kids
Leveraging Social Capital and Innovation to Increase Opportunity.
By Scott Winship | Yuval Levin | Ryan Streeter
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Why HUD’s Pushback Against DEI Mortgages Is Good for Black Wealth
October 14, 2026 | Howard Husock
It must be viewed as courageous for Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott Turner to...
AI and Jobs: A Few Scenarios
October 13, 2026 | James Pethokoukis
The following contract offered on the prediction market Manifold neatly encapsulates pessimism about how artificial...
Doctor, Patient, and AI
October 5, 2026 | Brent Orrell
AI in health care promises greater efficiency, but only if it balances the objective knowledge of the physician with the subjective wisdom of the patient.