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March 11, 2025

An Evaluation of Cost Saving Reforms of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

…reform proposals. As one example, I show how a combination of elements—expanding work requirements and eliminating the standard deduction and broad based categorical eligibility—can balance the goals of targeting and…

March 6, 2025

America’s New Frontier of Opportunity and Inclusion

…Further, demographic stagnation often contributes to lower economic growth over time. Unless we wish to accept lower growth and declining standards of living, we need solutions to the demographic/economic growth crunch that…

March 3, 2025

It’s Time for Time Limits on Public Housing

Like other Cabinet agencies, the Department of Housing and Urban Development is moving quickly to undo long-standing progressive policies. New HUD Secretary Scott Turner has asserted that the agency is now “DEI-free.” Perhaps even more…

March 3, 2025

Up in the Air

…and reinvesting the $100 billion in savings to increasing spending on AI and robotics. The trade-off here is stark. According to Morgan Stanley analysts, the average annual salary for eliminated…

February 27, 2025

Powering AI: The Energy Workforce Crisis No One Is Talking About

…energy transition and industrial revitalization will face continued headwinds. The rapid rise of AI and the potential it holds for higher living standards and longer, healthier lives depends on a…

February 27, 2025

How Progressive Policy Distorted the Housing Market

…of The Atlantic, does not directly criticize the assumptions behind such long-standing public policy in his new book, Stuck: How the Privileged and the Propertied Broke the Back the Engine of American Opportunity….

February 25, 2025

Ohio Ranks Only 29th In The Family Structure Index

…ago. By this standard, Ohio is in trouble. Consider these three rankings: Ohio ranks 3rd for deaths of despair (suicide, or drug or alcohol-related deaths). Ohio ranks 15th for child poverty,…

February 24, 2025

A Conservative Vision for Higher Education Reform

…addressing inequity. Unintended consequences of higher standards for students and borrowers should be addressed through direct grant aid rather than lower standards. Introduction The year 2019 marked a dramatic turning…

February 21, 2025

Hope And A Future: Forging Strong And Stable Families In Ohio, 2025

…this report, indicates that the state falls below average on key indicators of family strength. Ohio’s below-average standing on the Family Structure Index matters because this report will show how…

February 20, 2025

The American Dream Is Not a Coin Flip, and Wages Have Not Stagnated

…opinion also consistent with long-run trends in living standards and opportunity? According to populists on the right and left, Americans have seen meager income growth at best. National conservatives like…