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June 12, 2025
The Senate’s Higher Education Reforms Are Strong (But Could Be Stronger)
…which current law caps at relatively low levels. Colleges could also set lower loan limits for certain programs if they choose. The Senate’s proposed loan limits are long overdue. They should constrain…
May 19, 2025
The Case for Shifting More Welfare Costs to States
…hit state budgets hard at a time when state finances are already highly strained.” That view ignores the findings of a recent fiscal survey of states conducted by the National…
May 14, 2025
Libraries Are Doing the Work—Let’s Fund Them Accordingly
Over the past few years, I’ve had the privilege of visiting libraries of all sizes—from quiet rural branches to vibrant urban hubs. Each one tells a story—not just through the…
May 14, 2025
Graduation in the Time of COVID: The Weakened Relationship with Chronic Absenteeism
…and document how that relationship shifted over the course of the pandemic. Read the full report. Notes 1. Michael A. Gottfried, “Chronic Absenteeism and Its Effects on Students’ Academic and…
May 7, 2025
Displacement by Design: How Bad Policy Made Housing Scarce, and How We Can Fix It
…housing pressure that eventually breaks systems of care, erodes public trust, and places massive strain on local resources. The warning lights are flashing. Home prices and rents remain elevated. Rising delinquency…
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…