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November 14, 2024
The Rotting of the College Board
…hand, has remained mostly true to its roots. It is designed to figure out what students have learned and where they should be placed and is even expanding its market…
November 13, 2024
How Trump Might Fulfill His Higher-Education Campaign Promises
…could see continued efforts to open up the accreditation market. With control of the Education Department, the new administration could accelerate the recognition of new accreditors. Colleges could then seek…
November 10, 2024
The Risks of Nonprofit Local Journalism
…filling it with quasi-journalistic propaganda is no substitute for news. We await a new, for-profit, likely digital model — but should not turn away from the market in misguided haste….
November 5, 2024
Never Let a Crisis End
…is “non-market.” Ten city neighborhoods have seen 3,000 new affordable units built every year since 2014. Much more is in the pipeline. The current city budget allocates $8 billion over…
November 1, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Policy Book Doesn’t Even Mention Immigration
…border crisis in U.S. history — probably the largest such event in human history,” according to Mark Krikorian of CIS. Secondary effects have been equally prominent. Customs and Border Protection data indicate…
October 30, 2024
The Geography of Fertility — Where are the Babies?
…answer is red states. Republican states (those that Trump won in 2020) generally have markedly higher fertility rates than Democratic ones (those that Biden won), suggesting that more men and…
October 25, 2024
How Workforce Education Can Boost Earnings and Fill Jobs
Republicans and Democrats alike agree about the importance of workforce training. They’re right: Despite a recent labor-market cooling, there are still 7.7 million unfilled jobs in the United States. Unfortunately, America’s workforce-education…
October 21, 2024
US Tariffs Will Not Bring Back Jobs from China
…global economy. But these losses are relatively small in the context of US labor-market dynamism: in a typical month, five million workers separate from their employers, of which 350,000 are in the manufacturing…
October 15, 2024
Lefty NYC Council Add-Ons to Mayor’s ‘City of Yes’ Would Worse Housing Crisis
…to Bill de Blasio’s 200,000 affordable units “created or preserved.” As it stands, New York City has more — far more — of its housing protected from market forces than any other…
October 11, 2024
HUD’s Housing Misfire: When Bureaucrats Know Better than Markets
…loves but markets abhor. By further empowering federal bureaucrats, it will do more harm than good. The case in point is the Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) Pathways…