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February 14, 2024
Why You Should Get Married
…marketing in her twenties over finding the one, and is now in her mid-thirties and regretting that strategy. If she could go back in time, she told me, “I would…
February 13, 2024
The Awfulness of Elite Hypocrisy on Marriage
…by the notion that family diversity—the idea that all family forms are equally valid and valuable for kids—is a mark of moral progress in society. The phenomenon of people in…
February 12, 2024
Millennials Are Doing Better than You Probably Think
…previous one. To do this, Corinth and Larrimore create a measure of income that includes market income but also accounts for taxes and resources gained from government benefit programs. They…
February 9, 2024
Don’t Buy the Soulmate Myth
…shows and books, from the latest offerings on the Hallmark Channel to Elizabeth Gilbert’s mega-bestseller, “Eat, Pray, Love.” This model is based on the idea of finding a “soulmate”—that special…
February 7, 2024
Solving Benefit Cliffs in SNAP
…that the household does not include an elderly or disabled member. It also assumes that a households’ shelter costs accord with Fair Market Rents established by the US Department of…
February 7, 2024
Elite Colleges Need to Offer Less Affirmation. And Insist on More Work.
…and Mindy Marks calculated that in 1961 the average full-time student at a four-year college studied about 24 hours per week; by 2003, that was down to 14 hours. We’ve normalized a…
February 7, 2024
The Past and Future of Education Reform
…when yesterday’s left worked to impose bureaucratic uniformity on the nation’s schools. Rather, we’ll focus on the era of education reform that started in 1983 with the landmark report, A Nation…
February 7, 2024
To Save Local Journalism, Update The Public Broadcasting Act
…public broadcasting is not immune from a market test. It has been 56 years since Lyndon Johnson signed the Public Broadcasting Act, which has gone virtually unchanged in the interim….
February 6, 2024
Research by a Top Biden Administration Economist Reinforces the Importance of Work Incentives in the Child Tax Credit and the Safety Net
…single mothers markedly over the past 30 years. (In that regard, you really should look at Bastian’s Figure 2, which shows the employment rate of single mothers jumping about 14…
February 5, 2024
The Biden Administration’s War on Flexibility at Work
One of the signal errors of Biden administration policy has been its tendency to take regulatory actions that reduce the flexibility of the economy generally and the labor market in…