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January 21, 2024
Portland’s Encampment Kids
I’m standing outside the Central Police Precinct in downtown Portland, Oregon. Officer Eli Arnold and I have bicycled over to meet two of his colleagues, returned from a drug bust….
January 19, 2024
The Case for Curriculum
…From standardized testing to accountability measures and smaller classroom sizes, almost every idea under the sun has been tried and tried again, except for one: curriculum reform is the black…
January 11, 2024
Biden’s Dismantling of Federal Student Loan Programs Has Inspired Republicans to Go Big
…legislation, the Act would create a standardized financial aid offer form for university use, so that students can compare apples to apples. This might be a surprising push coming from…
January 8, 2024
How to Actually Triumph over Poverty
…made tremendous strides, including a sizable reduction in the poverty rate as Americans enjoy an improved standard of living. Yet we have not won the war. Success has come almost…
December 18, 2023
The State of Democratic Capitalism: 2023
…a century if successful. It would switch the baseline standard against which the level of competition in a market is measured. The “big is bad” standard judges competition by the…
December 14, 2023
The Myth of the 1%
…Department and David Splinter of the congressional Joint Committee on Taxation finds that the after-tax income share of the top 1% has barely changed since 1962. This stands in stark contrast to…
December 11, 2023
How to make smartphones and apps safer for kids
…and Googlealready conduct age verification on their devices — Google standardizes this practice in the set-up process, and Apple conducts age verification when applicants sign up for an Apple credit…
December 11, 2023
How Public Housing Encourages Single Parenthood and Penalizes Marriage
…the short-term spike in rents merely dramatizes that essential market failure. It asserts that the “rent burden among families with the lowest incomes is a long-standing issue. . .primarily due…
December 8, 2023
Room for Compromise on the Hot Foods Act
… As it currently stands, SNAP allows recipients to purchase “any food or food product for home consumption except alcohol, tobacco, hot foods, or hot food products ready for immediate consumption…” However,…
December 4, 2023
A Pro-Market and Pro-Social Economy
…good” can be an extremely irritating stance, but that does not make it any less true. In contrast to the wealth that free markets have produced, Gregg argues, state capitalism encourages unproductive rent-seeking behavior, elevates politics in…