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April 23, 2024
Awkward Truth: Subsidizing Women’s Work Drives Down Birthrates
…baby boom secret: Get women into work and ditch rigid family norms.” “Countries that have had a feminist revolution have the highest birth rates,” wrote David Willetts, a former British…
April 18, 2024
The Real Story Behind Food Insecurity in the US
…Christian Gregory recently found that most food insecure individuals “consume enough (or even too many) calories.” And research by Craig Gundersen and David Ribar found that most of those who spend the least on…
April 18, 2024
Back from the brink: The intellectual tide is turning on marriage and civil society
…For instance, as David Leonhardt, a columnist at The New York Times, noted, “I think that my half of the political spectrum — the left half — often dismisses the importance…
April 9, 2024
The Case for Curriculum Reform
…Fellow, American Enterprise Institute 4:05 p.m. Panel Discussion Panelists: Barbara Davidson, Executive Director, Knowledge Matters Campaign, StandardsWork Kristen McQuillan, Partner, TNTP Orlando Riddick, Division Superintendent, Houston Independent School District David…
April 8, 2024
Accountability Comes to Public Housing
…expectations,” Councilmember Sandy Nurse, whose district includes the project, told WNYC’s David Brand (who first reported Pinnacle’s dismissal). Socialist New York state senator Julia Salazar went further: “It’s even less…
March 31, 2024
Can Local Journalism Be Saved?
…$5 million. Blue Engine’s head of growth, David Grant, notes that 90 percent of such sites run on less than $1 million. This isn’t to suggest that the national-scale effort…
March 19, 2024
Conservatives Distrust Higher Ed—But Still Need Degrees
Ideological opposition to “woke” colleges and universities could harm conservatives and rural communities. American’s faith in our colleges and universities has seen a marked decline in recent years, with the percentage of…
March 14, 2024
The “No Excuses” Model Is Due for a Renaissance
…critics and recapturing what the phrase meant in its original coinage. David Whitman captured the mindset well in his 2008 Fordham Institute book Sweating the Small Stuff: a belief that “disorder, not…
March 14, 2024
On the Front Porch with Brent Orrell and Tony Pipa: A Conversation with Carol Graham
…through investing in public services and the arts. Following this discussion, the event ended with a Q&A. —David Veldran Event Materials Carol Graham: The Power of Hope: How the Science of…
March 1, 2024
How the Children’s Bureau Lost Its Way
…development. David Kelly, a key official at the Children’s Bureau in the Trump administration, argued, “We need to let go of the system that was designed to rescue children, and…