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August 17, 2023
The ‘Utah Family Miracle’ and Why It Matters
…and Robert Lerman at the Urban Institute, as well as Brad Wilcox at the University of Virginia, indicates, for instance, that one of the top predictors of economic performance across…
August 14, 2023
Keep the Utah Family Miracle Going Strong
…Joseph Price at Brigham Young University and Robert Lerman at the Urban Institute, as well as Brad Wilcox at the University of Virginia, indicates that one of the top predictors…
August 13, 2023
The Bill to Repair NYCHA Projects Doubles—but Pols Won’t Fix the System
…massive “slum clearance” program, overseen by—who else?—urban planner Robert Moses. What do you think? Post a comment. It put the wrecking ball to many neighborhoods whose condition was not nearly as…
August 12, 2023
Why Ending Child Services Is the New Defund the Police
…begin with the idea that the child welfare system is grounded in racist desires to separate minority families. Dorothy Roberts, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a…
August 4, 2023
The Racial Wealth Gap: Myths and Realities
The racial wealth gap has become a central component of claims of systemic racism and one of the core justifications for reparations. The main focus has been on housing market…
July 23, 2023
Lawlessness Is Spreading in Our Cities
…chief Robert Contee explained: “They have friends who see them do it, they do it. We’ve had young people committing carjackings and, while they’re being pursued by the police, they’re…
June 30, 2023
The U.S. Could Learn a Lot from This School in the U.K.
Last month, I took advantage of a trip to the U.K. to spend a day observing at London’s legendary Michaela School, which serves about 800 students ages eleven to 18, a…
June 26, 2023
Why There Are So Few Black Kids at Stuyvesant: Private Schools and Charter Schools Pull Top Students Out of the System
Once more there is hand-wringing as only a handful of Black students are in the 2023 entering Stuyvesant class; and very limited numbers at Bronx Science and Brooklyn Tech: the…
June 14, 2023
Why Behavioral Requirements Are Vital to Welfare Programs
Just as the welfare-to-work policies of the Clinton administration jump-started a remarkable improvement in the lives of black women, work requirements, such as those included in the recent debt ceiling bill , have proven…
May 17, 2023
The Wrong Immigration at the Wrong Time
The ending of Title 42, has again moved immigration to center stage. With foreign-born as a share of the U.S. population at historic levels, matching the early twentieth century, there…