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February 21, 2025
Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 2025
What is the American dream? It is a “better, richer, and happier life for all our citizens of every rank,” in the words of James Truslow Adams, the historian who…
February 10, 2025
For Better: Four Proven Ways To A Strong And Stable Marriage
…leftwing journalists like Amy Shearn, who tells us in The New York Times that “Married motherhood in America… is a game no one wins,” and rightwing online influencers like Andrew Tate, who claim…
October 1, 2024
For the Sake of the Kids: Strengthening Families in the Lone Star State
The family is the fundamental unit of society. As Pope Saint John Paul II so eloquently stated, “as the family goes, so goes the nation, and so goes the whole…
September 11, 2024
Doing Right by Kids: A Book Event
…the Safety Net Panelists: Kay S. Hymowitz, William E. Simon Fellow, Manhattan Institute Matt Weidinger, Rowe Scholar, American Enterprise Institute Brad Wilcox, Nonresident Senior Fellow, American Enterprise Institute Moderator: Kevin…
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…1947 through 1957, I use estimates from Simona E. Cociuba, Edward C. Prescott, and Alexander Ueberfeldt, “US Hours at Work,” Economics Letters 169, 87-90 (2018), data file updated October 2021,…
June 18, 2024
Answering Key Questions About Unemployment Insurance Reforms
…event of a layoff. A January 2024 report I coauthored with Amy Simon breaks down the respective federal and state roles: “The federal role in the UI program includes providing…
April 29, 2024
New “Scorecard” Report Promotes Better Use of Data to Prevent Unemployment Fraud
Criminals inflicted unprecedented fraud on taxpayer benefits during the pandemic, and some of the most abused programs were those that provided temporary federal unemployment benefits. As we documented in a…
April 29, 2024
Measuring What Matters: Context and Recommendations to Improve Reporting on Unemployment Insurance
Key Points This report explores the unemployment insurance system’s current data and performance management practices, including features designed to inform policymakers and the public about deficiencies in the administration of…
March 6, 2024
Caitlin Clark and Civil Society
…Moines”—her hometown. Iowa has been for women’s basketball what the overall game as been in Indiana: another original tradition born in civil society. As Amy Lifson has written for the National…
February 9, 2024
Resolving to Learn Lessons from Record Pandemic Fraud
Congress doesn’t make New Year’s resolutions, but if it did, digesting our new report on pandemic fraud would be a good one. Released last week, the new report (“Pandemic Unemployment Fraud in…