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February 27, 2025
How Progressive Policy Distorted the Housing Market
…and Robert Ellickson, whose 2022 book, America’s Frozen Neighborhoods, criticizes single-family zoning. My own book, The Poor Side of Town—and Why We Need It, shares his defense of so-called slum housing and…
February 20, 2025
The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated
…David Grusky, Maximilian Hell, Robert Manduca, Jimmy Narang, “The Fading American Dream: Trends in Absolute Income Mobility Since 1940.” Replication files available at https://opportunityinsights.org/data/?geographic_level=0&topic=0&paper_id=546#resource-listing. These results were the basis for…
January 3, 2025
Thanks, Joe Manchin
During transitions of power, it’s easy to fixate on a new administration’s nominees and legislative agenda while losing sight of those exiting the political stage. But as the new Congress begins…
December 5, 2024
SNAP and the “Make America Healthy Again” Agenda
…SNAP alone. President Trump’s pick for the DHHS Secretary, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has made his views on chronic disease and nutrition very clear, vowing to fix a broken system that incentivizes…
November 14, 2024
Florida, the Forgotten Education-Reform Star
Around the turn of the millennium, Florida was widely regarded as a pace-setter in education reform. Led by then-Governor Jeb Bush, the Sunshine State implemented an outcomes-driven agenda focused on prioritizing literacy, holding…
November 8, 2024
It’s Time for Conservatives to Reclaim Our Place in Ed Reform
As the results of the election came into focus Tuesday night, Chuck Todd made a keen observation on NBC: Republicans’ biggest gains among Hispanic voters came in Florida and Texas, states that…
October 21, 2024
US Tariffs Will Not Bring Back Jobs from China
…sector. Moreover, this focus on the effects of Chinese imports fails to account for the fact that open trade also increases exports. Studying the 1999-2011 period, economists Robert C. Feenstra,…
October 14, 2024
Another Terrible Idea: Abolishing Child Welfare
The only thing surprising about Dorothy Roberts winning a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” earlier this month is that it took the organization so long to do it. Roberts, a law…
October 11, 2024
Let’s Open the Black Box of Selective College Admissions
…Latino applicants? Is Yale using “holistic admissions” to circumvent the law and micro-manage the racial makeup of the student body? Are some selective colleges using Chief Justice Roberts’s “essay loophole”…
October 11, 2024
It’s time to face up to our social poverty problem
…a problem you can’t measure. That’s not to say we know nothing about certain aspects of our worsening social poverty problem. Robert Putnam documented the decline of clubs and civic institutions, the Joint…