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Op-Ed
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…
Op-Ed
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…
Blog Post
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…
op-Ed
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…
Blog Post
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…
Op-Ed
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,…
Op-Ed
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…
Op-Ed
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”…
Op-Ed
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…
Op-Ed
Learning the Right Lessons from the “China Shock”
…important understanding of the actual content of the studies themselves.) The economists Robert C. Feenstra, Hong Ma, and Yuan Xu attempt to estimate the effects of trade openness on both…
Op-Ed
Kamala Harris’s Main Priority Is Expanding Welfare, Not Strengthening the Middle Class
…family.” Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., parodied those answers at a recent rally in Michigan: “All you have to know is seven words, and you never have to admit to doing…
Op-Ed
Don’t Believe the Doomsayers. The American Dream Is Still In Reach for Young People
…a particular community have for young people growing up there. Robert Doar, president of the American Enterprise Institute, highlighted one of the study’s implications on crafting social welfare policy: “There is a…