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August 24, 2023
Want To End Apartment Warehousing? Ease Up On Rent-Control Laws
…improvements” to units to just $15,000 over a 15-year period. That means that no matter how much owners must spend to repair heating systems, roofs and windows, they’ll be limited…
August 24, 2023
Baby Boom Or Bust
…parks, trails and mountains materially make parents’ lives better, in part because of policies and institutions that help parents utilize them. The women enroll their children in My Tech High,…
August 24, 2023
The Hill that Public Education Dies on: Transgender Policies’ Utter Contempt for Parents
…believe it’s “inappropriate for teachers to discuss trans identity in elementary schools.” Other polls have found strong majorities of parents think transgender students should use bathrooms and locker rooms to match their…
August 23, 2023
Labor Department Report Finds Pandemic Unemployment Program Had a Staggering 36 Percent Improper Payment Rate
On August 21, the US Department of Labor (DOL) released its long-awaited “improper payment report” on the troubled Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) program. PUA was an unprecedented federal unemployment benefit program that…
August 17, 2023
The ‘Utah Family Miracle’ and Why It Matters
…and political endowments, including unusually high levels of social capital and low levels of government regulation. But Utah’s material and emotional success is also attributable to the strength and stability…
August 16, 2023
How to Strengthen the ‘Success Sequence’ in Utah
…much economic and family security matter for their welfare. What is the ‘success sequence’? Research tells us that education, work and marriage — especially marriage prior to having children —…
August 14, 2023
Keep the Utah Family Miracle Going Strong
…in part to the state’s unique civic, religious, and political endowments, including unusually high levels of social capital and low levels of government regulation. But Utah’s material and emotional success…
August 14, 2023
Tracking Plans to Make Pandemic Benefit Expansions Permanent
In 2008, former White House Chief of Staff and Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel famously said what has come to be known as Rahm’s rule: “You never want a serious crisis to go to…
August 14, 2023
The Narcissism of Small Diffidences
…for it, and keep earning it. Only then will you matter in this house, at this school, in this world.” Teaching kids that they matter is hard to do in…
August 11, 2023
Why Does NY Campaign To Stop Smoking But Not Illicit Drug Use?
…is no small matter in light of the latest Gallup survey finding 17% of Americans regularly smoke pot. Yet the state OCM chooses not to draw attention to health matters;…