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March 27, 2024
Perspectives on Place-Based Policy: Strategies for Workforce and Economic Development
Opportunity varies by place in the US, with the lowest levels of opportunity in states in the former Confederacy and American Indian reservations. Rural America faces unique challenges in relative…
March 26, 2024
Reading Scores Have Plunged Since the Pandemic. What This Senator Wants to Do About That
…mind. Here’s what he had to say. —Rick Rick: Senator, you’ve had a long-standing interest in literacy and dyslexia in particular. Can you talk a bit about why this issue is…
March 19, 2024
Conservatives Distrust Higher Ed—But Still Need Degrees
…college. This assertion can be especially damaging for rural and Republican-dominated areas of the country that stand to lose the most by abandoning higher education. Residents of these areas are…
March 14, 2024
A Crucial Fix For Rent Regulation
…leave apartments vacant.” Now that even a conservative Supreme Court has allowed rent regulation law to stand, Restler is quiet on the subject. It’s good to see, however, that some…
March 11, 2024
Taking On the College Cartel
…merit of a college education isn’t the point. The issue is that today an arbitrary judicial standard, an excessive regard for employer convenience, and an unwillingness to stand up to…
March 7, 2024
Jamaal Bowman’s Voting Rights Hypocrisy
…Bowman stands to benefit from New York State’s especially restrictive voter-registration laws in his own hotly contested primary this June. Bowman’s polarizing politics have drawn a serious challenger into the…
March 7, 2024
Growing Congressional Dysfunction Will Worsen Our Fiscal Problems
…legislative capacity on the Hill. Congress is losing the sort of policy-making veterans it needs to craft and pass important legislation. Their reasons for leaving vary and often include Congress’s general inability to pass needed legislation. That dysfunction is evident in Congress’s long-standing failure to…
March 6, 2024
College or Trade School? How About Both?
…access to higher education and reaped the benefits in terms of higher GDP and living standards. Education, then, feeds human capital development, the complex mix of education, skills, and social connection on which free markets depend for growth. To…
March 5, 2024
A Conservative Vision for Education Reform
…the world of American education to be a remarkably left-leaning place. We see this in the ideological makeup of the higher education professoriate, the giving of big foundations, the public stances of…
February 29, 2024
Addressing the False Claims from Industry Groups on Pilot Testing SNAP Restrictions
…line, each group makes a variety of arguments for why they oppose the pilots. None of these reasons, however, stands up to much scrutiny. Hundreds of items in grocery stores…