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July 12, 2023
New York Rent Control: Could the End be Near?
…that New York’s rent laws could be struck down, in full, or in part. Taking no action would let the lower court decisions upholding the law stand. Nor would a…
July 10, 2023
Reforming the EITC to Reduce Single Parenthood and Ease Work-Family Balance
Sixty years ago, in 1963, 94% of American children were born to married mothers. Today, the figure is only 60 percent. This decline signals a fundamental disruption in the long-standing stability of…
July 8, 2023
Why the End of Affirmative Action Is Good for Black Science Students
…time sitting in a college classroom. Math and science classes are tough. They use objective standards. And there is less grade inflation. It is simply harder to keep up if…
July 6, 2023
The End of Affirmative Action Calls for a Renewed Conservatism of Opportunity
…not of their own making. Because children from groups underrepresented among the elite are decidedly overrepresented among the disadvantaged, an effective policy agenda around upward mobility would stand to benefit…
July 3, 2023
Child Welfare’s Ideological Enforcer
…published.” In other words, it’s no longer acceptable for academic journals to publish anything questioning the current orthodoxy in child welfare. This stance has taken hold in other fields, too,…
June 30, 2023
House Republican Plan Penalizes Marriage
…child-rearing years, the Tax Cuts for Working Families Act would simply increase the standard deduction for all households — $2,000 for singles, $3,000 for heads of household, and $4,000 for…
June 30, 2023
The U.S. Could Learn a Lot from This School in the U.K.
…for affordable private schools to sprout and take root in this country. If there’s ever going to be a serious challenge to the standard American paradigm of schooling with the…
June 28, 2023
Is ‘Bidenomics’ Even a Thing, Really?
…standards—or is something else? To govern is to choose. To govern wisely is to acknowledge the existence of trade-offs and opportunity costs. For example: Regulations that preserve coastal views for luxury homeowners…
June 26, 2023
Why There Are So Few Black Kids at Stuyvesant: Private Schools and Charter Schools Pull Top Students Out of the System
…the number of high-performing Black students in charter and Catholic schools, it leaves very few able to meet the academic standards to gain admissions to the specialized public high schools….
June 23, 2023
SNAP Can Improve Nutrition, Help Farmers, and Support the Environment
…federal government’s National School Lunch Program (NSLP)—serving over 30 million children per school day—already sets nutrition standards for what schools can serve as part of the program. Reforms in 2012 required participating schools to…