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June 25, 2025
De-Skilling the Knowledge Economy
…expanded training accounts, stronger early education, and targeted reemployment support are essential to reduce inequality and promote opportunity. Introduction As David Veldran and I examined in our 2024 report, The…
April 28, 2025
You Autor Know
…of economists David Autor, David Dorn, and Gordon Hanson (ADH).[i] However, their research has been widely misunderstood, in part due to questionable claims made in their papers. Those papers are primarily…
February 21, 2025
Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 2025
…American dream offers. Read the full report here. David Leonhardt, Ours Was the Shining Future: The Story of the American Dream. (Random House, 2023): xii. Rachel Wolfe, “The American Dream Feels…
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
Sometimes it seems like Americans can’t decide whether we work too much or too little. We hear that because of rising inequality and a lack of good jobs, workers must…
February 29, 2024
The Age of Uncertainty—and Opportunity: Work in the Age of AI
Abstract The question of how artificial intelligence will affect jobs, skills, and the future of work is open-ended, and answers have been uncertain and contradictory. As AI has advanced, forecasts…
November 14, 2023
The Comeback City
…was pervasive, and the economy had stagnated. From John Lindsay to David Dinkins, mayor after mayor had tried to tackle these problems. They had all failed. After three decades of…
May 3, 2023
The Mainline Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Social Capitalism
Download the Dataset When Alexis de Tocqueville penned his seminal Democracy in America lauding the strength of American communities, institutions, and associations, he noted the unique status of religion. Religion,…
February 23, 2023
Distance to 100: An Alternative to Racial Achievement Gaps
…study conducted by University of Southern California researcher David Quinn were randomly assigned to view a TV news story about the differential achievement of black and white learners, Quinn found…