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May 23, 2025
How AI Will Harm Working-Class Families
…matters more for marriage than “her” work. One Harvard study, for instance, showed that a couple’s risk of divorce shot up 33 percent if the husband was unemployed, but rose not…
May 22, 2025
Those College Grad, Knowledge Economy Blues (And What to Do About Them)
…School District since 2018 to pilot AI teacher training and curriculum development. CMU’s approach seeks to integrate AI into subject matter areas rather than defining it as strictly a science topic. Early…
May 19, 2025
The Case for Shifting More Welfare Costs to States
As part of Congressional Republicans’ drive to craft “one big beautiful bill” reflecting Donald Trump’s tax and spending agenda, the House Agriculture committee on May 14 approved several proposals that…
May 14, 2025
Libraries Are Doing the Work—Let’s Fund Them Accordingly
…matter. So does the intergenerational initiative I encountered at Kansas City Public Library. In 2023, they launched a gathering designed to foster connection across generations. College students helped develop the…
May 14, 2025
Graduation in the Time of COVID: The Weakened Relationship with Chronic Absenteeism
…and graduation rates weakened by half during the pandemic. That is, a district’s chronic absenteeism rate seems to matter less to its graduation rate than it did before the pandemic,…
May 6, 2025
What DOGE Flagged as Unemployment Fraud Is Just the Tip of the Iceberg—Most of Which Will Never Be Recovered
The Department of Government Efficiency recently spotlighted unemployment benefits paid to tens of thousands of individuals whose reported birthdates indicated they were either children or dead. One claimant’s birthdate even suggested he or she hadn’t been born yet. As Elon Musk said, “Your tax dollars…
May 1, 2025
Tariffs Plus AI Makes for a Rocky Job Market. How Should Workers Prepare?
…stark: in today’s labor market, few occupations remain safe from AI-driven disruption. As Fiverr CEO Micha Kaufman bluntly puts it, “It does not matter if you are a programmer, designer, product…
April 25, 2025
Trump Administration Announces Plan to Get Borrowers Paying Student Loans Again
…matter of if, but when. The current student loan mess The federal government suspended student loan payments in March 2020 in response to the Covid-19 pandemic; this meant that payments…
April 24, 2025
Musk’s High-Tech Polygamy Is a Dead End
…there’s no humanity, and all the policies in the world don’t matter.” In this way, he spotlighted his commitment to the pronatalist cause—the idea that society must do more to…
April 24, 2025
In Opposing Last Month’s Continuing Resolution, Nearly All Democrats Voted to Shut Down Welfare Checks, Too
The Continuing Resolution (CR) Congress approved and President Donald Trump signed in March reflected a reversal of recent partisan roles on legislation preventing a government shutdown. That is, contrary to recent type,…