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Is Systemic Racism Responsible for the Increase in Child Mortality Rates?
…is the evidence for this? Surely the legacies of slavery and Jim Crow are still felt decades after they have ended, but the further we get away from these legal…
Op-Ed
I’m a Conservative But Defunding NPR Is a Mistake. What Should Happen Instead Might Be Surprising
…and college towns. The ensuing tempest has led, once again, to a move to defund the organization. Rep. Jim Banks, a Republican from Indiana, has said he’ll introduce such a bill,…
Blog Post
The Child Tax Credit: My Long-Read Q&A with Kevin Corinth
…Pethokoukis: Kevin, welcome to the podcast. Corinth: Thanks for having me on, Jim. I want to talk about a couple of things, one of those things is a government program….
Blog Post
What’s Wrong with the US Economy? Anything?
Economists were expecting 200,000 net new jobs added in March. Instead it was 50 percent more. Unexpected strength, but maybe not so unexpected, really, for an economy that continues to deliver…
Op-Ed
The Fearless Fund, DEI, and Attacks on Philanthropic Freedom
…targeting Black people fall in the same category? What about Julius Rosenwald’s famous support for schools for rural Southern Black children during Jim Crow? Or a foundation that limited its…
Blog Post
Millennials Are Doing Better than You Probably Think
“Each generation is worse off than the one before.” It’s one of the primary tenets of the notion that American capitalism has failed and that we live in the final…
Op-Ed
The Past and Future of Education Reform
…at Risk. How We Got Here During 1980 election, Ronald Reagan called for eliminating the new U.S. Department of Education (which Congress had created a year earlier, fulfilling Jimmy Carter’s…
Blog Post
When It Comes to the State of the American Economy, Let’s Keep It Real
Here we go again. An oft-repeated economic claim on social media is that most Americans lack the means to cover a $400 emergency expense. More evidence that most of us…
Blog Post
A Valuable New Perspective on America’s War on Poverty
I suppose if you’re someone who thinks American capitalism has failed and unironically uses the phrase “late capitalism,” there’s probably no changing your mind. So I guess this post is…
Op-Ed
Did Child Poverty Really Increase Last Year?
…CTC expansion who argue that its expiration has increased hardship sharply, requiring that it be reenacted—this time permanently. However, a new report from Jeehoon Han, Bruce Meyer, and Jim Sullivan indicates that…
Article
The Ultimate Social Capital: A Story to Save the Union
…and nationwide consensus narrative in U.S. history. This effort saw the segregation of the federal government, the triumph of Jim Crow in the South, the erection of most of the Confederate…
Op-Ed
What Happened to the American Dream?
…from medicine to nuclear power. The recent book by the Reaganite economic writer Jim Pethokoukis, “The Conservative Futurist,” makes an extended version of this argument, tracing our era of stagnation…