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March 12, 2025
Why Alabama Needs The Success Sequence
…have markedly higher odds of realizing the American Dream: get at least a high school education work full time marry before having children A stunning 97% of young adults who…
March 12, 2025
Stop and Go
…marched on, and automated driving – for consumers and the freight industry – is back. Comma, a tech firm specializing in self-driving technology for the mass market, recently began marketing a…
March 11, 2025
The American Dream in Ohio depends on stronger Buckeye families
…two-parent families in a community. In other words, poor children have a markedly higher chance of achieving the American dream if they grow up in places with a higher share…
March 6, 2025
America’s New Frontier of Opportunity and Inclusion
…groups) into the job market. Inclusion policies for education, training, and employment focused on socioeconomic disadvantage are more than just a “nice” thing; they are essential. The extreme lengths to…
February 27, 2025
How Progressive Policy Distorted the Housing Market
…markets to racism. Nor does he spare environmental regulation—such as the landmark 1970 California Environmental Quality Act, which he brands a tool for the wealthy to protect the value of…
February 25, 2025
Ohio Ranks Only 29th In The Family Structure Index
…Future report finds that the fortunes of Ohio children ebb and flow with the fortunes of the family. Specifically: The child poverty rate is markedly higher among children in Ohio being…
February 25, 2025
Go Fast, Break HR
…stretching out timelines because they can’t find the people to build and tailor the technology. As in other cases of extreme shortage, technical leaders are relying on the “spot” market…
February 24, 2025
A Glut of MBAs?
It’s all about the skills, not the credentials. You know the labor market times are changing when Harvard MBAs start showing up in the unemployment stories. According to a recent Wall…
February 20, 2025
The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated
…public opinion and objective measures indicate that the labor market is historically strong (though accelerating inflation during and after the COVID-19 pandemic has caused these trends to diverge). Is public…
February 18, 2025
Why So Blue: Liberal Women Are Less Happy, More Lonely. But Why?
…gap in the mental health of liberal and conservative women still present? Yes, new evidence from 2024 American Family Survey indicates it is. Young liberal women are markedly less satisfied with life than…