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April 15, 2025

Utah Hands Parents the Keys to the App Store

…trusted turned out to be little more than window dressing.  Stories like this are heartbreaking, and all too common. As parents and policymakers, we can’t stand by while a digital…

April 3, 2025

The dangerous myth that poverty is the cause of child abuse

…them from engaging in services, while also diminishing their ability to protect and care for their children. Oversimplifying the causes of child maltreatment will only lead policymakers to offer ineffective…

April 1, 2025

Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani’s Dangerous Radicalism on Child Welfare

…But as mayor, Mamdani would be ideally placed to put these ideas into practice, just as “progressive” prosecutors use their offices to enact policies that lawmakers reject. It’s hard to…

March 27, 2025

The Looming Debt Crisis, the Trump Tax Cuts, and Medicaid

…not CBO’s 154 percent. Given this unprecedented situation, you might expect federal policymakers to prioritize deficit reduction this year. But the recently passed House budget resolution would add around $3 trillion to the…

March 21, 2025

Increasing Financial Aid Isn’t the Solution to High College Costs

…federal Pell Grant, which advocates claim has lost its “purchasing power” over time. This narrative is misleading. In fact, policymakers have made financial aid programs such as Pell Grants far…

March 17, 2025

How State Policymakers Can Save the Nuclear Family

…falling prospects of family life across the country, state policymakers need to take three steps.  First, they should promote marriage (one of the biggest predictors of family formation) in public…

March 14, 2025

A Historic Opportunity for Higher Education Reform 

…policy divides between mainstream Democrats and Republicans used to be trivial. For example, 10 years ago, Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) proposal to lower student loan interest rates to 3.9 percent seemed radical. It was…

March 11, 2025

The American Dream in Ohio depends on stronger Buckeye families

…The challenge, then, facing Ohio leaders is to take steps to strengthen marriage and family life across the state. Policymakers should ask public schools to teach the Success Sequence(which underlines the…

February 14, 2025

Poverty During the Pandemic and the Role of Government Transfers

…that pandemic-era policies played an important role in maintaining economic wellbeing during this period. Policymakers have long debated how best to alleviate child poverty and what role government support should…

February 4, 2025

Snip, Snip: Spending Cuts Are Coming 

…circulated a short list of would-be savings totaling over $5 trillion, followed by a 50-page menu offering almost $15 trillion in nominal deficit reduction alongside more than $3 trillion in potential “sweeteners.” If lawmakers