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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 21, 2025
Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 2025
…Despair.” The Commonwealth Fund. (August 2018). “The Geography of Hope and Desperation in America: An Interactive Vulnerability Indicator.” Brookings Institution. January 2023. Mark Williams, “Ohio’s population projections are dire. Why…
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…
February 14, 2025
Poverty During the Pandemic and the Role of Government Transfers
…and money market accounts, certificates of deposit (CDs), directly-held stocks, bonds, and mutual funds. The data are from the CE. Asset information is collected only in the fifth interview of…
February 11, 2025
AI and the Future of Work Looks Bright
…and machine learning technologies, could provide us with a better understanding of current and future labor market demand. Such refinements to labor market information would form the foundation for more…
February 10, 2025
For Better: Four Proven Ways To A Strong And Stable Marriage
Introduction “Marriage is a path to misery and a transition of loss marked by giving up and missing out.” This is the message that, surprisingly enough, is emanating from both…
February 7, 2025
Low-Performing Students Fall Farther Behind the Pack
On January 29, the National Assessment of Education Progress, NAEP, released results from its 2024 assessment. This latest installment of the self-styled “Nation’s Report Card” makes depressing reading. Indeed, if…
January 24, 2025
The Targeting of Place-Based Policies: The New Markets Tax Credit Versus Opportunity Zones
…New Markets Tax Credit (NMTC), where government-approved entities select investments, and Opportunity Zones (OZs), where private investors choose projects. Despite underlying design differences, both target census tracts with relatively high…
January 22, 2025
How the Trump Administration Can Hit Its Growth Target
…basic questions like: Why can’t we build better infrastructure faster? Why can’t capital markets and bank lending be nimbler? Not only do such questions identify a specific goal; they also…