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May 7, 2025
Did ‘China Shock’ Throw Millions of Americans Out of Work?
…edited by Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch, and Gavin Wright. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ISBN-9780511132971.Ba652-103210.1017/ISBN-9780511132971.Ba652-1032. Estimates of agricultural employment…
April 25, 2025
What’s holding women back from starting a family?
…frankly about the joys and exhaustions of family life. But they agreed that motherhood, while frequently straining and stressful, was an unparalleled source of personal meaning and satisfaction. “Parenting is…
April 3, 2025
Trump’s Tariffs Are a Historic Tax Hike
If implemented, the tariffs announced yesterday by President Trump would constitute the largest tax increase since the 1968 levies to fund the Vietnam War. The details will matter, but my back-of-the-envelope calculation…
March 20, 2025
Homesteading 2.0: A Proposal to Make Housing Affordable Again
…a.m. Panel II. How Homesteading 2.0 Can Bring Economic Growth and Affordability to the West Panelists: Michael Burkentine, Co-Owner, Burkentine Real Estate Group 11:30 a.m. Q&A 11:45 a.m. Lunch and…
March 17, 2025
How State Policymakers Can Save the Nuclear Family
…Fellow at the Institute for Family Studies and a nonresident senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Michael Pugh, a research associate at the American Enterprise Institute, contributed to this…
March 11, 2025
The American Dream in Ohio depends on stronger Buckeye families
The “American dream” is a “better, richer and happier life for all our citizens of every rank,” wrote the historian James Truslow Adams over a century ago. Yet with ordinary Americans succumbing to “deaths…
January 14, 2025
The Pornography Industry Should Not Be Allowed This Much Access to Our Children
…Young University and a Fellow of the Wheatley Institute, Michael Toscano is a Senior Fellow and the Director of the Family First Technology Initiative at the Institute for Family Studies….
January 8, 2025
Menu Adjustment in Response to the Minimum Wage: A Return to the New Jersey-Pennsylvania Border
Abstract This paper studies how output prices are affected by increases in the minimum wage. To the best of our knowledge, we provide the first examination of how the prices…
December 17, 2024
Industrial Policy and Deficits: Dark Clouds for Democratic Capitalism
Democratic capitalism is a system that marries liberal democracy and free-market capitalism. This union creates tensions, and requires balancing competing aims. But this tension is healthy, not destructive — provided…