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August 30, 2022
Biden’s Student Loan Debt Plan is Driven by Politics, Not Economics
…the potential to make matters much worse. If future students anticipate this is just the first of many loan-cancellation events, they may be willing to pay and borrow more to…
August 10, 2022
A Failure to Respond: Public School Mask Mandates in the 2021–22 School Year
Key Points From September 2021 to late February 2022, school district mask mandates were in place for 61 percent of students in the US.During that period, Centers for Disease Control…
February 23, 2022
The Case Against Universal Free Lunch
…on whether the USDA and AHA are right or wrong in their dietary assumptions. It’s now a matter of well-documented record that the USDA’s original “food pyramid” was reworked against…
January 20, 2022
Testimony: Incentivize Individual Agency to Achieve Upward Mobility
…needed remediation in math and reading – if they did go to college. We cannot ignore that the racial disparities we are seeking to close originated long before they show…
January 3, 2022
Dynamism as a Public Philosophy
…era, the “pursuit of Happiness” was understood to be about more than material gain or emotional well-being; it was imbued with the notion of living well in accordance with virtue — a…
November 16, 2021
The Changing Face of Social Breakdown
…raw material for the sculptor to work with? The right to pursue happiness won’t do us much good if we don’t exercise it. Our best traditions grasp this danger. We…
July 2, 2021
Addressing the Shortcomings of the Supplemental Poverty Measure
Key Points The Supplemental Poverty Measure (SPM) partly improves on the Official Poverty Measure but still suffers from several shortcomings that limit its usefulness as an effective poverty measure. The…
April 19, 2021
The Role of Community in Place-based Giving
Key Points This report explores why strong communities matter and how philanthropists can strengthen the local fiber that helps communities improve. Putting people with similar interests in proximity to each…
January 17, 2020
Rethinking Reentry
…first fits well with a maturation model of desistance, and the second fits well with models that describe individually initiated identity transformations. Bushway argues that the evidence shows clearly that even high-rate…
November 13, 2019
Work, Family, and Community
…adequacy of the existing safety net to reduce material hardship and meet the future challenges facing this nation. Our perspective is broad and moves from the effects of each individual…