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December 27, 2024
DOGE Can Drive Reforms in America’s Broken Safety Net Programs
America’s broken safety net system has over 80 programs, costs $1.6 trillion annually, and perpetually underperforms. It’s inefficient, costly, and perversely functions like a snare net that traps people in…
December 20, 2024
Fixing Inflation, Right-Sizing the Federal Government
…If President-elect Trump, Vice President-elect Vance, and Congress want their policies to be evaluated based on whether future voters are better off than in the past, it obviously matters that…
December 17, 2024
Make America Smart Again: The Jeopardy Test for Graduation
…that high school graduates have mastered key subjects has fallen out of fashion. This month’s results of the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study are the latest bad news on that…
December 17, 2024
Industrial Policy and Deficits: Dark Clouds for Democratic Capitalism
…chips would rise from zero to 28 percent. Even if these optimistic forecasts come to pass, it is not clear whether these projected increases in U.S. production would materially advance…
November 21, 2024
A Local Option for Natural Gas Fracking
…case that local communities should have the right to decide on the matter. As the Ukraine war grinds on and Europe remains desperate to import natural gas rather than rely…
November 17, 2024
Affordable Housing—and No Tax Hike
…simple math that ensures future development will enrich rather than deprive communities. The new homes would generate $720 million in city sales tax receipts on construction materials over the decade,…
November 15, 2024
JD Vance is Right: Reduce the Power of Big Foundations to Help Charity
…matters as climate change (MacArthur), racial healing (Kellogg) or reducing incarceration (Open Society), donors overall, per the definitive Giving USA analysis, favor religious and human services far ahead of the environment…
November 1, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Policy Book Doesn’t Even Mention Immigration
…to 39% advantage. You would expect both campaigns to focus on key voter priorities. Indeed, the priorities in the Republican platform exactly match voters’ top three issues in a decidedly Trumpian fashion….
October 11, 2024
It’s time to face up to our social poverty problem
…on the incomes and employment of individuals, families, groups and regions — and can therefore say a lot about changes in income, inequality and material living standards. In contrast, we…
October 9, 2024
Two Cheers for California’s Ban on Legacy Admissions
…more likely to be admitted to mom or dad’s alma mater than a non-legacy applicant with comparable test scores. The idea that a student should get a leg up because…