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May 7, 2025
Workforce Participation for Older Americans: Warning Lights Flashing
Over the past generation, the work trends for older Americans were one of the bright spots in an otherwise decidedly mixed labor force picture. But that is no longer the…
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 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…
July 25, 2023
Why Is Economic Growth Good?
…wellbeing,” economist Nicholas Oulton writes: GDP has always been a measure of output, not of welfare. But although GDP is not a measure of human welfare, it can be considered…
July 17, 2023
What the Rise in Dog Attacks Signals About the State of America’s Social Capital
If you have ever had the unfortunate experience of being attacked or bitten by a dog, you’re not alone. The one time it happened to me was while walking at…
April 18, 2023
Introduction to The Social Breakdown
…middle layers.[4] More recently, Charles Murray’s In Pursuit: Of Happiness and Good[5] and Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960–2010 and Nicholas Eberstadt’s Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis[6] have explored the themes of social connection…