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June 16, 2025
Better Boys: The Difference Good Dads Make
…the odds they end up in the principal’s office. They also suggest that policymakers — including leaders such as Govs. Glenn Youngkin and Wes Moore in states such as Virginia and Maryland who have…
June 12, 2025
The Senate’s Higher Education Reforms Are Strong (But Could Be Stronger)
…outcomes. The Senate will need to approve the full package, and lawmakers must reconcile its differences with another higher education reform plan recently passed the House. There are more steps before these…
June 4, 2025
Congress Is Subsidizing the Wrong Neighborhoods
…poor communities. The House bill nods to this idea by enhancing incentives for investment in rural areas. But lawmakers shouldn’t favor rural areas over urban ones. Third, Congress should steer…
May 29, 2025
How Non-disabled Medicaid Recipients Without Children Spend Their Time
…a good idea. Other factors that policymakers should consider include, for example, impacts on work and other community engagement, government spending, costs to hospitals, and the health and mortality risks…
May 28, 2025
The Challenge: A Complex and Inefficient Student Loan System
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May 28, 2025
An Evaluation of Approaches to Cut and Reform SNAP
…SNAP, look at some of the ways they could feasibly go about doing so, and then evaluating what the implications would be for some important outcomes that policy makers should…
May 19, 2025
The Case for Shifting More Welfare Costs to States
…grim federal fiscal outlook suggests that, even if cost shifts are not enacted through this reconciliation legislation, in the long run federal policymakers will have no choice but to transition…
May 14, 2025
Graduation in the Time of COVID: The Weakened Relationship with Chronic Absenteeism
…to over 100,000 fewer graduates—if not for its weakened relationship with absenteeism. Educators and policymakers must purposefully contend with whether emergency pandemic policy changes have enduring effects on students and…
May 12, 2025
To Improve Student Outcomes, Focus On Classroom Practice, Not Policy
…by my recent Marquette Today piece, the event—hosted in collaboration with the College of Education—brought together educators, researchers, and policymakers to discuss how improving classroom practice is the linchpin of meaningful…
May 7, 2025
Displacement by Design: How Bad Policy Made Housing Scarce, and How We Can Fix It
…policymakers to act. Good Neighbors AI turns housing pressure data into smart strategies for zoning reform and rehousing, giving leaders actionable intelligence today for tomorrow’s needs. It’s not top-down intervention;…