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May 6, 2024
How Much Are You Willing to Spend on Student Loan Forgiveness?
…becomes taxes you paid, services you might have missed, or debt you will owe. No matter what, you have a share. But how big is your share? Let’s do the…
May 6, 2024
How States and Communities Can Strengthen Marriages
…curriculum for high school students that includes healthy marriage and relationship education.[14] The curriculum includes sections on preparing for a healthy marriage, dating and mate selection, managing conflict, and family…
May 4, 2024
Make Parents Pay for Kids Who Miss School To Curb Chronic School Absenteeism
…22%. It’s hardly a way to combat the learning loss of school lockdowns, which, per the National Assessment of Educational Progress, set back math and reading proficiency by two decades, especially for…
May 2, 2024
Lives Cut Short: A Project to Document Child Maltreatment Fatalities
…Pennsylvania State University Antonio Garcia, Buckhorn Professor of Social Work, University of Kentucky John Mattingly, Former Commissioner, New York City Administration for Children’s Services Viola Vaughan-Eden, Professor, Ethelyn R. Strong…
May 1, 2024
The closing of the American heart
…from intact families are about four times more likely to graduate from college than they are to spend any time incarcerated. Clearly, marriage and stable families seem to matter for…
April 30, 2024
I’m a Conservative But Defunding NPR Is a Mistake. What Should Happen Instead Might Be Surprising
…of raising funds. Such a decision would have to be the result of action by the Internal Revenue Service—based on such matters as failing to operate in keeping with their exempt…
April 29, 2024
New “Scorecard” Report Promotes Better Use of Data to Prevent Unemployment Fraud
…and programmatic responses policymakers should pursue, including: Requiring identity verification before future benefits are paid; Barring self-certification of eligibility for benefits; Ensuring benefits do not exceed wages; Requiring data matching…
April 29, 2024
Measuring What Matters: Context and Recommendations to Improve Reporting on Unemployment Insurance
Key Points This report explores the unemployment insurance system’s current data and performance management practices, including features designed to inform policymakers and the public about deficiencies in the administration of…
April 26, 2024
Washington, District of Benefit Cliffs
As the welfare state expands while policymakers struggle to contain its costs, one unintended result is the creation of significant benefit cliffs. A little-noticed September 2023 report authored by Elias Ilin and Alvaro Sanchez…
April 22, 2024
John Silber, the Campuses Have Need of You
…on somebody else.” Columbia officials might give a similar answer today—if they would take the matter seriously enough to use it as an occasion for just that sort of edifying…