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March 11, 2025
The American Dream in Ohio depends on stronger Buckeye families
…two-parent families in a community. In other words, poor children have a markedly higher chance of achieving the American dream if they grow up in places with a higher share…
March 10, 2025
Many Children Left Behind: The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress Results Indicate a Five-Alarm Fire
Key Points The 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores underline a continuing decline in educational achievement in the United States. The Institute of Education Sciences’ tendency to favor…
February 27, 2025
How Progressive Policy Distorted the Housing Market
…markets to racism. Nor does he spare environmental regulation—such as the landmark 1970 California Environmental Quality Act, which he brands a tool for the wealthy to protect the value of…
February 25, 2025
Ohio Ranks Only 29th In The Family Structure Index
…Future report finds that the fortunes of Ohio children ebb and flow with the fortunes of the family. Specifically: The child poverty rate is markedly higher among children in Ohio being…
February 25, 2025
Go Fast, Break HR
…stretching out timelines because they can’t find the people to build and tailor the technology. As in other cases of extreme shortage, technical leaders are relying on the “spot” market…
February 24, 2025
A Conservative Vision for Higher Education Reform
…addressing inequity. Unintended consequences of higher standards for students and borrowers should be addressed through direct grant aid rather than lower standards. Introduction The year 2019 marked a dramatic turning…
February 24, 2025
What Do You Call an Automatic Stabilizer that Doesn’t Shrink When Conditions Improve? The Biden Food Stamps Blowout
…CBO’s phrase, seemingly regardless of the direction of the nation’s job market. Figure 1. Source: USDA, BLS, NBER Figure 2 also compares the US unemployment rate with the SNAP caseload,…
February 24, 2025
A Glut of MBAs?
It’s all about the skills, not the credentials. You know the labor market times are changing when Harvard MBAs start showing up in the unemployment stories. According to a recent Wall…
February 21, 2025
Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 2025
…Despair.” The Commonwealth Fund. (August 2018). “The Geography of Hope and Desperation in America: An Interactive Vulnerability Indicator.” Brookings Institution. January 2023. Mark Williams, “Ohio’s population projections are dire. Why…
February 20, 2025
The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated
…public opinion and objective measures indicate that the labor market is historically strong (though accelerating inflation during and after the COVID-19 pandemic has caused these trends to diverge). Is public…