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May 6, 2024
How States and Communities Can Strengthen MarriagesÂ
Family is the greatest source of social capital, providing the setting in which people grow, develop, and anchor their lives. Stable and healthy marriages are at the foundation of strong…
May 2, 2024
A New Lost Generation: Disengaged, Aimless, and Adrift
…grace” during the pandemic, one middle school teacher and administrator told me. Students didn’t just get passing marks, they got good grades for minimal effort. Now there’s a lack of…
April 23, 2024
Awkward Truth: Subsidizing Women’s Work Drives Down Birthrates
…minister of state for universities and science. New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg argued that “in countries that support working mothers, like Sweden, Denmark, Norway and France, birthrates are basically fine.”…
April 21, 2024
The Real Bias at NPR: Story Selection
…sociologist Herbert J. Gans studied in his landmark 1980 book Deciding What’s News: story selection. Quite simply, the “news,” as Gans helps us understand, is not a self-evident set of events about…
April 18, 2024
Back from the brink: The intellectual tide is turning on marriage and civil society
…deepest problems. And, contra The New Yorker’s insinuation, religious couples are markedly happier and more stably married than their secular peers. There are three features to the decline in family…
April 17, 2024
Homelessness and the Persistence of Deprivation: Income, Employment, and Safety Net Participation
…severe deprivation rather than large and sudden losses of income. People appear to experience homelessness because they are very poor despite being connected to the labor market and safety net,…
April 11, 2024
What a New Report on 10 years of AI Research Reveals
…workers with writing or coding, as well as with human interaction on the job. This application, they say, could lower barriers to entry and democratize skills, potentially boosting the labor market value of workers with less…
April 10, 2024
The Political Landmines Buried in the Latest Jobs Report
CNN on Friday dubbed the latest monthly jobs report a “blowout,” pointing to 303,000 net new jobs created in March. President Joe Biden immediately claimed credit, saying the report “marks a…
April 3, 2024
Feds Should Take a Big Step Back on Student Loans
…virtues of free markets, described a role for the government in solving the failure of the market to adequately fund efficient investments in education. But our persistent mismanagement of this essential program…
April 1, 2024
How Private Student Lending Can Repair Higher Education
Key Points Private student loans are a relatively small share of the market for higher education finance; however, scaling back the beleaguered federal student loan program would offer an opportunity…