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September 20, 2024
Don’t Believe the Doomsayers. The American Dream Is Still In Reach for Young People
…birth rates and marriage rates. Moreover, a growing mass of able-bodied young men, and some young women, are simply opting out of the labor force, as my American Enterprise Institute colleague Nicholas Eberstadt has…
September 17, 2024
The Blue State Family Exodus: Families Are Migrating to Red and Purple States
…seemingly gone out of its way to undermine families and children,” argued the New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof, pointing to the Republican Party’s opposition to a host of policies he believes would help families….
September 10, 2024
America is Still Working
…SCP Report No. 3-18, 2018, https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/republicans/2018/9/inactive-disconnected-and-ailing-a-portrait-of-prime-age-men-out-of-the-labor-force. Nicholas Eberstadt, Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis (Templeton Press, 2016). [47] Nicholas Eberstadt, “Education and Men without Work,” National Affairs, 2020, https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/education-and-men-without-work. [48]…
May 15, 2024
The American heart is closing to marriage and family. Can red states change that?
…decline of 6% over the same time frame. Efforts such as these are important because research carried out with my colleague Nicholas Zill indicates that “Florida counties that enjoy strong and stable…
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 6, 2024
Caitlin Clark and Civil Society
…have been referring to something bigger: the tradition—and culture—of basketball in Indiana. It’s a history rooted in 1891 Springfield, Mass. YMCA visit, when a Crawfordsville, Indiana minister named Nicholas Wade…
January 25, 2024
On the Front Porch with Brent Orrell and Tony Pipa: A Conversation with Nicholas F. Jacobs
…Mr. Orrell and Mr. Pipa spoke with Nicholas F. Jacobs, the author of The Rural Voter: The Politics of Place and the Disuniting of America, a recent book that examines the state of politics in rural America….
January 9, 2024
Post-Pandemic Recovery for America’s Prime Age Labor Force: A Tale of Two Sexes
The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) “monthly jobs report” last Friday closed the book on 2023, recording a continuing expansion of both labor supply and paid work in America last…
September 25, 2023
As NYC Reels from Fentanyl Day Care Tragedy, Child Care Overdoses Are More Common Than We Think
“He had so much love,” Zoila Dominici said of her 1-year-old son Nicholas who died last week from fentanyl exposure after his home-based day care in The Bronx, Divino Nino, was found to…
September 20, 2023
Do Two Parents Matter More Than Ever?
…recent analysis by Nicholas Zill and Brad Wilcox found that “rates of school contact for student misbehavior are nearly twice as high among students living with separated or divorced parents…