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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 14, 2024
The Rotting of the College Board
…and Andover to Harvard and Yale had once meant that university administrators had a pretty good idea of what they were getting when students matriculated. Maybe some were mediocre students…
November 14, 2024
Florida, the Forgotten Education-Reform Star
…the authors note, no other state matched Florida’s NAEP results in fourth-grade math among students eligible for free lunch. But perhaps most significantly, Florida ranks third nationally in fourth-grade reading…
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…
October 9, 2024
Kamala Harris’s Main Priority Is Expanding Welfare, Not Strengthening the Middle Class
Last week’s vice-presidential debate was chock-full of references to the middle class and plans to improve conditions for the middle class. That’s also a common refrain to the stump speech…
October 3, 2024
Stop the insanity. Our national debt now tops $35 trillion…
America’s political leaders have a spending problem. They know entitlement programs feature benefit promises far exceeding their tax base, but have done nothing to make them sound. Meanwhile, both parties demand…
September 20, 2024
Don’t Believe the Doomsayers. The American Dream Is Still In Reach for Young People
…gaps remain. While a person’s race matters increasingly less, there are community level characteristics whose absence or presence more directly drive individual prospects of upward or downward mobility. Indeed, this…