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February 14, 2024
Four States That Are Leading the Charge for Conservative Education
…and critics. The final standards are unabashedly pro-American while leaning forthrightly into difficult and controversial topics. They address weighty themes while requiring more factual knowledge and specificity than previous standards,…
February 7, 2024
Solving Benefit Cliffs in SNAP
…amount (i.e., the lower the household’s net income, the higher the SNAP benefit). These deductions include a standard deduction ($198 for a family of three), earnings deduction (20 percent of…
February 7, 2024
The Past and Future of Education Reform
…adopting various Obama priorities. The most controversial of these would prove to be a new set of reading and math standards known as the Common Core State Standards. With the…
February 5, 2024
The Biden Administration’s War on Flexibility at Work
…just starting out or want or need flexible work schedules. From the standpoint of the economy, the rule will introduce new rigidities into an already stressed labor market. The Biden…
January 31, 2024
How Should State and Local Governments Respond to Illegal Retail Cannabis?
…be licensed businesses. It also encourages consumers to think the marijuana products they purchase are standardized and therefore safer than they actually are.4 Broadly, the proliferating black-market cultivation, distribution, and sale…
January 29, 2024
Let’s Not Turn the Child Tax Credit Into Welfare
…Congress is far from guaranteed. Some Democrats believe the reforms don’t go far enough to assist poor children, while some Republicans have expressed concerns about relaxing work requirements and increasing spending. As it stands…
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…