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February 23, 2023
Distance to 100: An Alternative to Racial Achievement Gaps
…longer blinded by demographic achievement gaps would quickly discover that roughly equal numbers of black, white and Hispanic students are reading below grade level nationally. (See Figure 2.) This matters…
February 23, 2023
Heeding the Warning from the Future
…venerable delusions in a little under 250 pages. It also provides plenty of prime comedic material. The book’s lively tone, by turns flummoxed, frustrated, and amused, comes through in Weill’s…
February 14, 2023
Microsoft Is Getting Ready to Eat Google’s Lunch
…or better than any other encyclopedia, a solid foundation for finding deeper resource materials and subject to constant checking by competing perspectives. ChatGPT has some of the same limitations as…
February 2, 2023
Prioritizing Money Over Marriage, Today’s Parents Are Making a Big Mistake
…too many parents today do not appreciate how much marriage and family matter to their own children’s future well-being. Based on our conversations with young adults, today’s parents often encourage…
January 7, 2023
Personal Responsibility, Not Victimhood, Is the Path to Success
…schools. Such an approach has substantial public support. A recent study by Nat Malkus at the American Enterprise Institute suggests that the success sequence is quite popular among parents as well as…
January 3, 2023
Systemic Disadvantage
…mattered. “Libertarian fundamentalists” and “cosmopolitan elites” pushing deindustrialization, rather than “culture,” were deemed the headwaters of white poverty for the simple reason that it’s easier to claim victim status when…
January 3, 2023
Perspective: Women Are More Likely to Make Friends at Work Than Men. Here’s Why That Matters
Despite efforts to close the gender wage gap, the difference between men’s and women’s wages remains a stubborn fixture of modern society. Women still make 83 cents for every dollar men make….
January 1, 2023
Perspective: Is your boss on your DOS? How remote work monitoring can work
The challenge is to develop and use tools that reinforce trust rather than weaken it As COVID-19 recedes, American workers are filtering, slowly and fitfully, back to the office. In…
December 15, 2022
The Myth of Income Stagnation
…consumption gains over those decades. Could this material progress really have coincided with stagnating incomes? Relying on anecdotes and intuition to compute economic trends can work sometimes, but it can…
December 9, 2022
“Automatic Stimulus”: How It Would Have Increased the Record Unemployment Benefits Paid During the Great Recession and Pandemic
…2021, when President Joe Biden said it “makes sense” they expired.8 Under one policy guaranteeing that benefits during a health emergency match prior earnings, expanded federal benefits would remain payable today…