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December 9, 2024
TIMSS Shows the Bottom Is Falling Out for US Test Scores
Last week’s release of 2023 scores from the Trends in Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)—an international assessment measuring fourth and eighth graders in math and science—offers a fresh look at…
December 3, 2024
The ‘Fentanyl Election’ Is Over. Now What?
…the finger somewhere else. “Bernie Sanders might look at this material and, not unfairly, call the ongoing suffering of the opioid epidemic a Purdue Pharma plot.” Maybe. But blaming pharmaceutical…
December 3, 2024
Avoiding an Unemployment Loan Bailout
Taxpayers in most states may have dodged a billion-dollar bullet on election day. That is, if the outcome had been different, liberal lawmakers would have been uniquely positioned to bail…
December 2, 2024
The Pursuit of Happiness Starts with Families: A Conversation Between Brad Wilcox and Gov. Spencer Cox
…happening here, it’s this idea that families matter, and having intact families matters. By the way, I should mention that I come from a family that is not intact. My parents…
December 2, 2024
Why Has Construction Productivity Stagnated? The Role of Land-Use Regulation
…establishment size and productivity is causal, America’s residential construction firms would be approximately 60 percent more productive if their size distribution matched that of manufacturing. Read the full PDF here….
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 20, 2024
Eliminate Federal Lending to Graduate and Professional Students; Revenue to Fund Block Grants to States
…making accommodations for the second-order effects of the proposed policy changes. The proposed policy changes will follow the format for a policy solution that was outlined in a previously coauthored…
November 19, 2024
A Trump Boom?
…on wages could match the progressivity of the current income tax system. Because some consumption goods are imported and some are exported (and not consumed domestically), this system would require a border-adjustment…
November 19, 2024
We Aren’t Testing Students on the Computer Skills They Actually Need
…again experienced the greatest decline, matching the –37-point decline in the computer literacy module. American students have performed poorly on international assessments for many years, but our economy outperforms every…
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,…