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April 8, 2024
We Still Don’t Know How Much Taxpayers Lost Due to Pandemic Unemployment Assistance Fraud
…something else very strange about OMB’s math: it appears to be missing billions of dollars in additional federal benefits paid, in many cases improperly, to PUA recipients. The OMB report…
April 3, 2024
School Absenteeism Has Become A Big Problem. But We Can Do Something About It.
…Nat Malkus, who’s tracked the numbers on chronic absenteeism in his widely-referenced Return to Learn Tracker, has reported the situation is even worse in the nation’s poorest and low-achieving communities. In Los Angeles,…
March 31, 2024
Can Local Journalism Be Saved?
…Since 2018, according to the Medill School, 118 news enterprises have been set up, many of them nonprofits—from Cal Matters to the Texas Tribune to VTDigger (Vermont). The Institute for…
March 26, 2024
Reading Scores Have Plunged Since the Pandemic. What This Senator Wants to Do About That
…so important to you? Cassidy: Literacy—the basic ability to read—is at the heart of all other learning. If students do not learn to read, they cannot read to learn new material…
March 21, 2024
Why Foster Kids Aren’t Getting the Mental Health Care They need
…light on what is happening. According to the report, “Families Matter to Kids’ Mental Health” by Nicholas Zill, there are about 8 million children in the U.S. who need psychiatric…
March 12, 2024
Family Dinners Offer a Silver Lining in a Bleak Social Capital Landscape
…trend. The National Survey of Children’s Health, sponsored by the federal Health Resources and Services Administration and the Maternal and Child Health Bureau, has been fielded numerous times since 2003….
March 11, 2024
Taking On the College Cartel
…to get started. The current system isn’t suited to facilitate competition and creation. However, some form of oversight is necessary as a matter of fiduciary responsibility. The obvious solution is…
March 11, 2024
Why Educators Often Have It Wrong About Right-Leaning Parents
…about the fairness and safety of girls’ sports. Where you may see bigoted parents seeking to “whitewash” history, conservatives see a response to politicized materials that replace one-dimensional portrayals of America…
March 8, 2024
Jason Kelce, Family Man
In his tear-filled farewell speech, Jason Kelce brought his 13-year NFL career to a close by underlining what really mattered in life: marriage and family. The longtime Philadelphia Eagles player, who made the…
March 7, 2024
Growing Congressional Dysfunction Will Worsen Our Fiscal Problems
…this frustration is not to pretend that deficits don’t matter or ignore the challenge they pose — it’s for Washington to finally take deficits seriously and act to rein them in. Absent progress on bringing government spending…