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April 25, 2025
Trump Administration Announces Plan to Get Borrowers Paying Student Loans Again
…matter of if, but when. The current student loan mess The federal government suspended student loan payments in March 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic; this meant that payments…
April 4, 2025
How One State Improved Its NAEP Scores
…through school. This cannot continue to be the case. We must go back to teaching foundational skills in math and place a greater emphasis on mathematical fluency. Society talks about…
April 3, 2025
Trump’s Tariffs Are a Historic Tax Hike
If implemented, the tariffs announced yesterday by President Trump would constitute the largest tax increase since the 1968 levies to fund the Vietnam War. The details will matter, but my back-of-the-envelope calculation…
April 1, 2025
Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani’s Dangerous Radicalism on Child Welfare
…mayor Eric Adams and former governor Andrew Cuomo. Mamdani has also adopted a platform of terrible ideas. His campaign materials portray him as a Robin Hood candidate, staking out far-left…
April 1, 2025
Did Maltreatment Fatalities in Texas Really Decline?
…that deaths that would have been attributed to maltreatment prior to the law change may not be confirmed as maltreatment today. Further complicating matters, DFPS implemented a new policy in…
March 28, 2025
Cracking the Code Behind Dismal 8th Grade Reading Scores
…or materials. A recent RAND research survey of teachers in grades 3-8 found that 44 percent of their students “always or nearly always experience difficulty” reading the content of their instructional materials….
March 28, 2025
Unfreezing New York’s Projects
…understand that they’d likely die before such funding materialized. Per Adams, if capitalizing on the value of public housing real estate makes obvious sense anywhere, it’s at Fulton & Elliott–Chelsea….
March 27, 2025
The Looming Debt Crisis, the Trump Tax Cuts, and Medicaid
…the federal debt held by the public in 2034 is $53 trillion or $54 trillion instead of just $50 trillion—let those figures sink in—hardly seems to matter at this late…
March 20, 2025
To Transform K-12 Education, the Trump Administration Should Measure What Matters
…states saw a decrease in scores from 2019 to 2024 in 8th-grade math. Tennessee, the sole exception, showed no change at all. To help analyze results, NAEP is legally required to collect…
March 17, 2025
Trump Should Put an End to Rent Control
…in rent-regulated units earn more than $100,000 annually. As a practical matter, owners have an incentive to rent to higher-income tenants to ensure rents, even if low, will at least…