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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…
August 3, 2023
Another Pandemic Legacy: Removing the EITC’s Work and Earnings Requirement
Since its origin in the 1970s, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) has been the premier federal program promoting and rewarding work by low-income adults. As displayed below, taxpayers have…
August 2, 2023
Measuring Social Capital: Can We Tell If Some Places Are Richer in Social Capital Than Others?
…measures recur in other state- and county-level social capital indicators. In his foundational book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, Robert Putnam created a state measure based on…
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…
July 17, 2023
What the Rise in Dog Attacks Signals About the State of America’s Social Capital
…reported that registered nurses experienced a 33 percent increase in violent encounters with patients from 2019 to 2020.[10] In an interview with the Atlantic, sociologist Robert Sampson said that ethical behavior…
July 14, 2023
Do We Need a Reboot? Challenging Prevailing Narratives on AI
…Robert Reich and Jeremy Weinstein, to unpack some of the big issues regarding the future of AI. These two political scientists took a nuanced and informed approach to AI that…
July 13, 2023
Republicans Step Up to Lead on Higher Education Reform
…of both houses of Congress. As Chief Justice Roberts articulated in the majority opinion in the case, “Our precedent—old and new—requires that Congress speak clearly before a Department Secretary can unilaterally alter…
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
The Best Argument for School Choice
A new study from the Texas Public Policy Foundation is a reminder that the most persuasive argument in favor of school choice is not the promise of higher test scores, the beneficial…