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March 24, 2025
Tax Abatements: The Best-Kept Secret to Revitalizing Struggling Communities—Without Spending Taxpayer Money
…combined, these reforms unleash American ingenuity and entrepreneurship, empowering builders of all sizes to deliver abundant, market-rate housing—boosting supply, reducing costs, and delivering real affordability over time. Read the full…
March 21, 2025
Increasing Financial Aid Isn’t the Solution to High College Costs
…the high underlying costs of college, such as reining in administrative bloat, limiting federal subsidies to high-cost colleges, and opening up the higher education market to more competition. If these policies bring tuition down, existing financial…
March 20, 2025
Homesteading 2.0: A Proposal to Make Housing Affordable Again
Across the Western US, rising home prices are slowing economic growth and stripping first-time homebuyers and middle-class families of homeownership opportunities. Commonsense, market-driven solutions to expand the housing supply are…
March 20, 2025
To Transform K-12 Education, the Trump Administration Should Measure What Matters
…other male legal guardian. “NAEP does collect family structure data and makes it available on the NAEP Data Explorer,” Mark Schneider, former director of the Institute of Education Sciences, told us….
March 19, 2025
What Can We Learn from Louisiana’s Progress in K–12 Education?
…p.m. Adjournment Related Content Low-Performing Students Fall Farther Behind the Pack Mark Schneider | Education Next | February 6, 2025 Louisiana’s Clarion Call: “Let Teachers Teach” Robert Pondiscio | AEIdeas | August 12, 2024…
March 19, 2025
AI and Jobs: Measuring Impact and Building New Assessment Tools
…University of Michigan, on how AI is shaping the labor market and workforce development policy. The conversation was moderated by Axios reporter Ashley Gold. The discussion centered on Anthropic’s latest…
March 18, 2025
Low-Rise Multifamily and Housing Supply: A Case Study of Seattle
…market-rate housing that promotes affordability. The key is to allow market forces to use by-right zoning to drive small-scale development, when also supported by clear and simplified regulatory frameworks. We…
March 17, 2025
How State Policymakers Can Save the Nuclear Family
…hotter job markets and lower taxes, all of which appeal to young and middle-aged men and women aiming to start or grow their families. Culturally, red states are more likely…
March 17, 2025
Progressives Are Starting to Come Around on the Importance of Marriage and Fatherhood
…the rules. But the data paint a different picture; and it’s getting much harder to ignore. In his landmark 2022 book “Of Boys and Men,” Richard Reeves chronicled the falling…
March 17, 2025
Trump Should Put an End to Rent Control
…most notably, New York City, where the prices of 960,00 apartments, nearly a third of all housing, is price-regulated. HUD has a special interest in the market distortions, inadequate maintenance,…