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December 27, 2024
DOGE Can Drive Reforms in America’s Broken Safety Net Programs
…Reforms help people rise out of poverty through program consolidation, reducing administrative costs, and ensuring states are better stakeholders with financial skin-in-the-game. The hallmark 1996 welfare reform law should serve as a…
December 18, 2024
Employers Should Drop Hiring Preferences for “Elite 34” Colleges
…Journal, some employers have dropped hiring preferences for graduates of elite universities—and a few even consider an Ivy League degree a black mark. The cases are anecdotal so far. But…
December 17, 2024
Make America Smart Again: The Jeopardy Test for Graduation
…of difficulty has not deterred mass market viewership. Just the opposite. In 2021, Jeopardy was the most-watched nonsports program on television, averaging 9.2 million nightly viewers, and this popularity sends a message. Americans…
December 17, 2024
Industrial Policy and Deficits: Dark Clouds for Democratic Capitalism
…requires free markets. Under democratic capitalism, the political system should interfere with markets as little as possible, only intervening for necessary regulation, to correct market externalities, and to raise revenue…
December 12, 2024
Which Men Cheat Least? Republican Husbands, Especially ‘Religious Wife Guys’
…contrast, religious Republicans are markedly more likely to embrace the classic fidelity norm and, consequently, are the least likely to cheat on their wives. The takeaways, then, are two-fold. First, headlines…
December 11, 2024
The Often Overlooked Link Between Drug Use and Family Decline
…to the sexual revolution telling women they should behave more like men, and growth in the marketing of alcohol to women — typically women are still subject to the worst…
December 11, 2024
Some College Graduates Are Taking Lower-Paying Jobs
…more non-college pathways for these individuals to develop and prove their capabilities. A job market that values skills over degrees is possible. But there’s still a long way to go….
December 5, 2024
SNAP and the “Make America Healthy Again” Agenda
…purchase with SNAP, policymakers would not only improve the health of participating households, but it would also likely lead retailers to supply and market their products differently—having impacts far beyond…
December 5, 2024
Inflation Reduction Act Offers a General Lesson against Industrial Policy
…Why should we expect the government to do a good job of picking winners and losers or to allocate scarce resources better than the market? If the government intervenes in…
December 3, 2024
How States Can Shake Up the Stagnant Higher Education Market
Artificial barriers to entry have been a feature of markets for millennia, from medieval guilds to modern occupational licenses. Though often defended on the basis of consumer protection, barriers which…