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October 5, 2023
DCS Has Failed Children It Was Supposed to Protect, This Lawsuit Shows Why
…collection and monitoring and holding them accountable for minimum standards of care. These lawsuits focus on children in foster care because federal courts have held that individuals in state custody…
October 2, 2023
Shopping for Colleges Just Got a Little Easier for Some Students
…standard language and format for financial aid award letters. And while “more government intervention” seldom seems to be the answer in higher education policy these days, in this case it’s…
September 29, 2023
How Well Is Rural America Doing? You’d Be Surprised
…very much a cosmopolitan elite in good standing. But that’s just part of her story. She also grew up in Danville, Pennsylvania, a town of about 5,000 in the heart of…
September 25, 2023
America Remains a Shining Beacon for the World
…immigrants (60 percent) believe their children’s standard of living will be better than theirs is now. Notably, the immigrant standard of living figure is higher than the share of US-born…
September 21, 2023
Testimony | Spurring Innovation in Workforce Development: Program Governance and Service Delivery
…(WIOA). Early in my career, I supported Governor Mike Leavitt in negotiating and implementing the legislation that created the Utah Department of Workforce Services, which still stands today as the…
September 21, 2023
How Health Policy Laws Are Hurting College Students and Their Families
…they were in some kind of danger. Lawsuits by parents over their children’s suicides are not uncommon. From a soccer goalie at Stanford to a basketball star at Canisius College…
September 21, 2023
How Health Privacy Laws Are Hurting College Students and Their Families
…they were in some kind of danger. Lawsuits by parents over their children’s suicides are not uncommon. From a soccer goalie at Stanford to a basketball star at Canisius College…
September 18, 2023
“Player Piano” (Revisited) in the Age of AI
…a member of the Reeks and Wrecks, it is just $30. “I think it’s clear,” says Radical, “that the American standard of living has tumbled eighty percent.” The rebuttal, judged…
September 18, 2023
Students’ Lack of Basic Knowledge of US History and Civics Remains a National Embarrassment
…in 10 questions correctly. Among those under the age of 45, only one in five pass, which says a lot about the debased standards of common knowledge expected of students…
September 18, 2023
There’s an Easy Fix That Would Solve Our Housing Crisis: Light Touch Density
…increases the supply of housing for middle-income households, when what we have now is the opposite—long-standing exclusionary zoning laws that limit most areas of the nation to single-family detached homes,…