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November 12, 2024
The National Assessment of Educational Progress Recompete: Is It Real Change or Lipstick on a Pig?
Key Points The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) has a congressional mandate to assess American students’ academic performance over time. Unfortunately, the bureaucratic processes to select NAEP’s contractors have…
November 12, 2024
Government Contracting for “America’s Report Card” Is Broken
If you tried to apply for federal student aid this 2024–2025 school year, you would have been met with a glitch-filled online form created using 40-year-old code, released three months…
November 12, 2024
Irresistible Policy, Meet the Unmovable Labor Market
Gad Levanon, chief economist at The Burning Glass Institute, analyzed data relating to the share of undocumented workers in a wide variety of trades and lower-wage, lower-skilled occupations, as well…
November 10, 2024
The Risks of Nonprofit Local Journalism
…filling it with quasi-journalistic propaganda is no substitute for news. We await a new, for-profit, likely digital model — but should not turn away from the market in misguided haste….
November 5, 2024
Never Let a Crisis End
…is “non-market.” Ten city neighborhoods have seen 3,000 new affordable units built every year since 2014. Much more is in the pipeline. The current city budget allocates $8 billion over…
November 1, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Policy Book Doesn’t Even Mention Immigration
…border crisis in U.S. history — probably the largest such event in human history,” according to Mark Krikorian of CIS. Secondary effects have been equally prominent. Customs and Border Protection data indicate…
October 30, 2024
The Geography of Fertility — Where are the Babies?
…answer is red states. Republican states (those that Trump won in 2020) generally have markedly higher fertility rates than Democratic ones (those that Biden won), suggesting that more men and…
October 30, 2024
Workforce Strategies for New Industrial Policies: Governors’ Emerging Solutions
New research from the Project on Workforce and the National Governors Association highlights how governors are leveraging new industrial policy opportunities to strengthen workforce development and meet labor market needs….
October 25, 2024
How Workforce Education Can Boost Earnings and Fill Jobs
Republicans and Democrats alike agree about the importance of workforce training. They’re right: Despite a recent labor-market cooling, there are still 7.7 million unfilled jobs in the United States. Unfortunately, America’s workforce-education…
October 21, 2024
US Tariffs Will Not Bring Back Jobs from China
…global economy. But these losses are relatively small in the context of US labor-market dynamism: in a typical month, five million workers separate from their employers, of which 350,000 are in the manufacturing…