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September 29, 2023
How Well Is Rural America Doing? You’d Be Surprised
…miss the mark. The “deaths of despair” narrative is so embedded in our public discourse that rural America has, mostly in our imaginations, been transformed into a dystopia. But in the words of one of…
September 28, 2023
How To Halt New York’s Ubiquitous Illegal Pot Blight
…violators at high-profile intersections — the squeegee guys gradually disappeared. The NYPD today has a much stronger hand to play in bringing order to the cannabis market — which the state…
September 18, 2023
West Virginia Budget Cuts Are a Taste of Higher Ed’s Future
…labor market made it more attractive to move directly into the workforce instead of spending thousands and incurring debt to earn a degree. Mr. Gee highlighted these factors, along with…
September 18, 2023
There’s an Easy Fix That Would Solve Our Housing Crisis: Light Touch Density
…of light-touch density (LTD) housing, allowing the market to build more affordable housing options for more Americans. The reason this is the solution to our housing crisis is simple: It…
September 18, 2023
A Degree of Risk
…interested in the details, and there is less pressure on institutions of higher learning to perform. Discipline from the market can keep value high and prices low, ensuring that public…
September 17, 2023
Tracking ‘two-parent privilege’ in Utah
…state does face educational challenges. Today, two challenges are especially noteworthy: Persistent gaps between less- and more-privileged children mark student performance, and too many students are not performing at levels considered proficient or better…
September 15, 2023
Why Industrial Policy Fails
…scarce resources better than the market? If the government intervenes in markets, how will it avoid mission creep, cronyism, and corruption? In the real world, government planners simply lack the…
September 14, 2023
The Privilege Hiding in Plain Sight
…has been viewed more than a staggering 125 million times. It captures another Privilege Walk, but in this case the personal attributes being presented are markedly different from those posed…
September 12, 2023
Who Is Happiest? Married Mothers and Fathers, Per the Latest General Social Survey
…appear to be obstacles to living a happy life. Instead, these two traditional markers of adulthood are associated with a happier life. As difficult as marriage and parenthood can be,…
August 28, 2023
Here’s a Kind of Job-Training Program That Works
JOB-TRAINING AND WORKFORCE-DEVELOPMENT programs have long been plagued by weak wage and job-persistence outcomes. Since the United States spends markedly less on these types of programs than do other developed nations, it’s…